Persistent conections cause time outs when share is unavailable

[David Beaven]

313937 suggests using a shortcut for these type of connections. This is not
very convenient / clever.

Is there any way of using persistent connections on machines that don't
always see these drives e.g. laptops. Is there any setting in group policy
that might help?
Otherwise persistent functionality is of no use in making adhoc shares
(rather than by group policy) on laptops since they will slow the machine
down when in offline mode.
If we use /persistent:no in scripts then users that choose to make shares
available offline will lose their easy entry point to the share when offline
(they would need shortcuts)
Hope you improve this next OS!
Thanks
David

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

313937 suggests using a shortcut for these type of connections. This is not
very convenient / clever.

Is there any way of using persistent connections on machines that don't
always see these drives e.g. laptops. Is there any setting in group policy
that might help?
Otherwise persistent functionality is of no use in making adhoc shares
(rather than by group policy) on laptops since they will slow the machine
down when in offline mode.
If we use /persistent:no in scripts then users that choose to make shares
available offline will lose their easy entry point to the share when offline
(they would need shortcuts)
Hope you improve this next OS!
Thanks
David

The problem is easily solved by placing a script into the
Startup folder, e.g. something like this:

@echo off
ping aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd -n 1 | find /i "bytes=" > nul && goto :eof
net use S: \\...
net use T: \\

Note:
- aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP address of the machine that
hosts your shares.
- Persistency must be turned off
- You can refer to a centrally stored logon script like so:
call \\YourServer\netlogon\netlogon.bat