Map Drive Disconnects...

[Guest]

Good Day Guys

I have 3Pc with XP, they are in Workgroup as Workgroup and I'm using simple
PC Name schema (PC1, PC2, PC3) for my PCs. Since I don't have money for
server 2003 I decide to use Pc1 as file server and rest of my Pc as
Workstations. Both PC2 and PC3 has P: Drive and V: as Drive Mapped drive from
share folder of PC1. It was working perfectly every reboot I was able to
connect my P: and V: Drive. But Yesterday I decide to fincy my self by
changeing Workgroup to MyHome and names of PC to MyHomeServer, MyHomePC1 and
MyHomePC2. and suddenly every time I reboot my MyHomePC1 and 2 I get this
little red X mark on my Mapped Drive. Ofcourse I remapped after changing
names. I was able to reconnect them by double clicking the discconected
mapped drive from My Computer but It won't automatically reconnect to my
Mapped Drives.... errrr...
so I wrote little batch file remap.bat and place em in my startup folder.
(net use p: \\MyHomeServer\P /persistence:No) but during the startup the
script i wrote just hangs for while and disappear from screen. errrr
but when I run the script after complete boot up it runs fine.... I get all
my mapped drive.....

any help

Thankx

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

it should be /PERSISTENT:NO instead of /persistence:No.

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[Guest]

I mean /Percistent:NO

it should be /PERSISTENT:NO instead of /persistence:No.

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[Richard G. Harper]

Put a batch file in your Startup group:

net use p: /d
net use p: \\MyHomeServer\P

That will allow the network to start before running the batch file. You
also want to DISCONNECT the drive before CONNECTING it so any persistent
connections are disconnected and renewed.

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[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have 3Pc with XP, they are in Workgroup as Workgroup and I'm using simple
PC Name schema (PC1, PC2, PC3) for my PCs. Since I don't have money for
server 2003 I decide to use Pc1 as file server and rest of my Pc as
Workstations. Both PC2 and PC3 has P: Drive and V: as Drive Mapped drive from
share folder of PC1. It was working perfectly every reboot I was able to
connect my P: and V: Drive. But Yesterday I decide to fincy my self by
changeing Workgroup to MyHome and names of PC to MyHomeServer, MyHomePC1 and
MyHomePC2. and suddenly every time I reboot my MyHomePC1 and 2 I get this
little red X mark on my Mapped Drive. Ofcourse I remapped after changing
names. I was able to reconnect them by double clicking the discconected
mapped drive from My Computer but It won't automatically reconnect to my
Mapped Drives.... errrr...
so I wrote little batch file remap.bat and place em in my startup folder.
(net use p: \\MyHomeServer\P /persistence:No) but during the startup the
script i wrote just hangs for while and disappear from screen. errrr
but when I run the script after complete boot up it runs fine.... I get all
my mapped drive.....

One thing I would try (without knowing whether it really helps
or not) is to remove all shares, then recreate all shares. Then
remove all mappings and recreate all mappings. For good measure,
reboot in between.

Hans-Georg