network drive mapping problem

[inenewbl]

Hi all. I have a user who manually map a network drive. The "reconnect at
logon" chkbox is checked. This mapped drive has been working well for weeks
until 1 day he realised it is missing. When i try to manually remap the drive
with the same drive letter used previously it says the network drive has
already been used and asked if i want to overwrite it. Before overwriting I
could see that this drive letter is used to map the drive i wanted. Hence why
is it so that the mapped drive disappear from "my computer" even though the
system regconised that the drive letter is still in used. Although i can use
a script to make it permanent but i was just curious. Pls advise. Thks in
advance.

 

[Guest]

Sounds like the user was asked if he/she wanted to re-connect the drive on
one logon because it wasn't available & the user's clicked no or permission
was denied

Script is easy:

Create a batch file

@echo off
rem don't make it reconnect at login
net use /persistent:no
rem delete the share if in existance
net use o: /delete
rem re-map the share
net use o: \\server_name_here\share_name_here

Save the batch file & put it in the user's startup folder unless you're
logging in to a domain then put it in the netlogon share & point the user to
it in AD or add the share to an existing script

If you use 'persistent:no' then you won't get any overwrite promps for the
user which you may have if you set 'persistent:yes'