HELP! - mapped drive question

[Maggie]

Hi,
I am helping out a friend. (What did I get myself into?!)
She has a small company and the computer that acts as both
a client and a server for this special software that she has is
old and she wanted the software on a new computer. I unplugged
the old computer/server to bring home. When I started it up here
to study it, the shared network drive that is mapped to a folder came
up with an indication that it was disconnected. I know what folder
should be mapped because it is the only shared folder on the C drive.
So I am trying to figure out how to reconnect the network drive letter
that was assigned to that shared folder. I am unable to do so.

Help pleaseeeeeeee.

Thanks so muchhhhhhhhhh.
Mag

 

[Steve Duff [MVP]]

You probably just need to plug in the
network adapter so that the machine has
a functioning IP address. It will then be
able to "find itself" so to speak on the
rather minimal network you have going.
Seems silly, but there you have it.

If you don't have a hub, switch, something you
can plug it in to there is a registry hack to
disable what is called "media sense" so that
the network adapter always thinks it is
connected. I'm reluctant to recommend this
hack, but you can check support.microsoft.com
on the KB for the details if you really have to do that.

You will also find that -- if you are running the
software on the local machine -- that if you
use a "SUBST" command at startup instead
of a network drive mapping, you will avoid
this problem and your application will run
about a zillion times faster too! Open a
CMD window and type "subst /?" to
see the syntax. This is not permanent the
way a drive mapping is, so you need to put it
in the startup folder so it happens at logon.

Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

 

[Maggie]

You were right on Steve. Thank you sooo much!!!