Best Method for Mapping Drives (XP/2000)

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I've read hours of articles and forum discussions, but I can't get a definate
answer. At my work-place we have 95% XP-sp2 machines and the rest Windows
2000 Pro machines. Before we had any XP machines, we had a batch program that
would remove all mapped drives, then reassign them (this was how it had to be
done I've been told).

Now that we've upgraded to XP, I've read XP remembers mapped drives and
reconnects them on its own. I've noticed it is actually slower to let XP
reconnect them vs if I run the script on my machine. So what is better? Run
the script everytime, or only run the script once and let XP remember for the
rest of the time? What is the official way of doing this?
 
Kurtas said:
I've read hours of articles and forum discussions, but I can't get a definate
answer. At my work-place we have 95% XP-sp2 machines and the rest Windows
2000 Pro machines. Before we had any XP machines, we had a batch program that
would remove all mapped drives, then reassign them (this was how it had to be
done I've been told).

Now that we've upgraded to XP, I've read XP remembers mapped drives and
reconnects them on its own. I've noticed it is actually slower to let XP
reconnect them vs if I run the script on my machine. So what is better? Run
the script everytime, or only run the script once and let XP remember for the
rest of the time? What is the official way of doing this?
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There is no "official" method. Use whichever technique works best on
your specific network.

If it matters, we run a login script that deletes and remaps network
drives at each login.


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