Disconnected Network Drive

[_RR]

Any idea what causes mapped network drives to appear as 'Disconnected
Network Drive' in 'my computer?' This happens even when a system is
powered up with the networked system already online (supposed to
reconnect on startup).

Double-clicking the drive letter in 'my computer' accesses the drive
and changes status to 'Network Drive.' Unfortunately, accessing by
another app gets the 'disconnected' status.

There must be a registry patch or option for this, but I haven't found
it.

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Any idea what causes mapped network drives to appear as 'Disconnected
Network Drive' in 'my computer?' This happens even when a system is
powered up with the networked system already online (supposed to
reconnect on startup).

This is by design. Windows will not reconnect the drives on startup
but on the first use.

 

[_RR]

This is by design. Windows will not reconnect the drives on startup
but on the first use.

Any way to keep them connected?

BTW, drives will reconnect when an attempt is made via direct click in
'my computer' but programs that do folder sync or whatever seem to
fail. I wonder why MS would want to force users to manually reconnect
after timeouts.

 

[Guest]

Disconnected Network Drive

To work around the problem (which dogged me for months..) used the standard
welcome screen WITH MORE THAN ONE USER. One user goes right into Windows and
mapped drives are disconnected. MORE than one user causes mapped drives to be
connected when the selected user's settings finishes loading. Bad tradeoff
to get mapped drives "connected" at startup if only one person uses the
machine.....
Wish MS would make a fix to this.... instead of "by design"

 

[Guest]

I have a WinXP Pro machine with mapped drives to our AS400 system, they are
dropping connection during the day. I have tried a few things to change the
time out to drop connection set to 0 so they will stay alive, still not
working. Any other ideas out there that can help.

 

[Guest]

Does anyone have a solution for this problem? I have the same issue on a
WinXP Pro PC that has numerous drives mapped to various directories on
different servers. The PC is in a W2K3 domain and is running all the time.
When we leave for the day, all drives are "connected" and when we come back
in the AM, most of them are displayed as "disconnected network drive".

Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks.