Controlling a network drive

[Rick Altman]

I have a Netgear Storage Central NAS with two drives in it. The drives spin
down after about 10 minutes of inactivity and then come to life anytime my
local machine polls for available drives. This 10-second delay gets
annoying, especially because the drives are only used for backup and
occasional file restore.

I can unmount the drives from the Disk Management tab of Computer
Management, but then I have to remember to remount them before the end of
the day, lest my 3:00a backup procedure will fail. I would like to know:

1. If there is a command-line interface fo Disk Management, so I can mount
and unmount my network drives via a batch file?

2. Or is there a better way to ensure that my network drives stay asleep all
day and wake up at night for backup?




Thanks...

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
There is some thing unclear in your info. The Netgear is a stand alone
Network Device, control of the hard Drives probably can be done by the NAS
it self and Not one of the network computers.
In any case, Network Drive can be Mapped and Unmapped by creating batch
files with Net Use command.
This link describe a more elaborate process with SBS,
http://msmvps.com/blogs/kwsupport/archive/2004/11/03/17830.aspx
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Rick Altman]

Thanks, Jack. The NAS gives it a drive letter on a local PC; hence the
issue. I'd love to just use Net Use...but how do I find out the devicename?





RA