Comments on: “Security” http://nedward.org/2006/08/15/security nedward.org is the personal weblog of John Niedermeyer, an Editorial Designer at NYTimes.com, living in Brooklyn. Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kirk Brocas http://nedward.org/2006/08/15/security/comment-page-1#comment-1334 Kirk Brocas Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:30:24 +0000 http://nedward.org/wp/?p=933#comment-1334 Yep, Had the same problem myself when accessing VMWare mapped host drives and right clicking on a zip file (where zip files registered to 7-zip - not sure if that is relevant) Anyway, I noted that file manager showed the zone as "Internet Zone" instead of "My Computer". Double clicking on the icon, added \\.host\Shared Folders to the intranet zone, and problem went away. I suggest you add the servers you have mapped your drives to to the intranet zone. Yep, Had the same problem myself when accessing VMWare mapped host drives and right clicking on a zip file (where zip files registered to 7-zip – not sure if that is relevant)

Anyway, I noted that file manager showed the zone as “Internet Zone” instead of “My Computer”.

Double clicking on the icon, added \.host\Shared Folders to the intranet zone, and problem went away.

I suggest you add the servers you have mapped your drives to to the intranet zone.

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