Mapped network drive not visible by other users?

[Guest]

Hi guys,

I am having a weird issue with Windows 2000 Professional. I have mapped a
network drive under my account that has full admin privileges. Then, when I
login with any other user (with or without admin rights), the network drive
that I mapped cannot be seen! I have to map it with EVERY user that logs in,
making it ridiculously frustrating. Has anyone ever seen this before? I need
to map a drive so that every user can access it without having to go throught
the mapping process. The "reconnect at logon" option is checked.

Thank you very much in advance for your help, I'm lost and confused :-(

SS

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi guys,

I am having a weird issue with Windows 2000 Professional. I have mapped a
network drive under my account that has full admin privileges. Then, when I
login with any other user (with or without admin rights), the network drive
that I mapped cannot be seen! I have to map it with EVERY user that logs in,
making it ridiculously frustrating. Has anyone ever seen this before? I need
to map a drive so that every user can access it without having to go throught
the mapping process. The "reconnect at logon" option is checked.

Thank you very much in advance for your help, I'm lost and confused :-(

SS

Do it explicitely, by placing these lines into the new file
c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\startup\netlogon.bat

@echo off
net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare
ping localhost -n 6 > nul

This puts in control and lets you see what's going on!

 

[Richard G. Harper]

That's how network drive and printer mappings work - per user. A workaround
would be to create a batch file in the All Users\Startup folder like so:

net use p: /d
net use p: \\servername\sharename /persistent:yes

That would run no matter who logs onto the system.

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