Disconnected Network Drive - Office "Look In" very slow

[jan steinberg]

Hi Folks,

I've an interesing issue:

I'm traveling a round the world with my great IBM Thinkpad. I have a
lot of drive mappings to different server shares on my computer.

For instance, two locations (NY + CA) with Server "Alpha" and "Beta"

If I am in NY I mapped K: to \\Alpha\d$
If I'm in CA I mapped L: to \\Beta\d$

If I'm back in NY I still see that L: is mapped to \\Beta\d$ but
currenty not connected (marked with a red x). So far, so good.

But when I open Office and try to open a DOC (using the Open Dialog)
by pressing the Scroll button at the "Look In" NOTHING happend for
approx. 20 sec.

This happend every time until I remove the disconnected network drive
to \\Beta\d$

From my point of view it has to do with someting like "reconnecting
network drive" in the background but the happend seeming only with
Office (Workd, Excel...). Using Notepad, no problems.

Any ideas how to configure this?
How to stop WinXP / Office reconnecting any Network drives (unless at
the Login process).

Could anybody understand what I mean?

Thx
Jan

 

[Danoot]

Hi Folks,

I've an interesing issue:

Could anybody understand what I mean?

Last thing you do, before you leave either one of these locations,
is use look-in to look at a directory that isn't on a network
folder. Then when you look in next time, it will not spend a futile
20 seconds searching for a connection that doesn't exist.

maybe.

 

[jb]

I had the same issue when working at home, so I login as
the local admin when off my network and I don;t have the
delay issues because I'm not connecting to any drives at
login. May not fit your situation.