Disconnected Network Drive.....

[John Morley]

Hi All,

I have a network drive that is supposed to connect at logon. The problem
is that at bootup, the status of the remote drive is always
"Disconnected Network Drive". As soon as I use the Windows Explorer to
explore the remote drive, it's status changes to "Connected Network
Drive", and everything works as expected. Is there a way to "really"
make the network drive connect on startup, rather than having to go
about this process? Ordinarily it wouldn't be a big deal, but I've got a
program that automatically write data to the network drive and it hangs
up until I do this!

Thanks,

John

 

[thecreator]

Hi John,

Run Chkdsk with both options checked and see if that has any effect on
your problem. Run Disk Cleanup first.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 11/20/2008 9:45 AM, and on a whim, John Morley
pounded out on the keyboard:

Hi All,

I have a network drive that is supposed to connect at logon. The problem
is that at bootup, the status of the remote drive is always
"Disconnected Network Drive". As soon as I use the Windows Explorer to
explore the remote drive, it's status changes to "Connected Network
Drive", and everything works as expected. Is there a way to "really"
make the network drive connect on startup, rather than having to go
about this process? Ordinarily it wouldn't be a big deal, but I've got a
program that automatically write data to the network drive and it hangs
up until I do this!

Thanks,

John

Hi John,

You could try using a group policy setting to wait to connect to network
before logging in, located here in gpedit.msc:

Computer Config
Administrative Templates
System
Logon
Always wait for the network...

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Terry R.

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