Mapped drive annoyance

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BillW

I have a small home network with shared folders on a host PC - some are
mapped at the remote PC. Even though I request reconnection at restart,
sometimes (not all the time) the mapped drives do not reconnect. I have to
go into My Computer on the remote PC and select the mapped drive to manually
reconnect. The status before I manually reconnect actually shows that they
are unconnected network drives. Am I doing something wrong? It seems
pretty basic, so I don't know what else I could do. The annoyance is I
don't know that they did not reconnect until I start an application that
can't find its file because it can't get to the mapped folder. Thanks for
your help.
 
BillW said:
I have a small home network with shared folders on a host PC - some are
mapped at the remote PC. Even though I request reconnection at restart,
sometimes (not all the time) the mapped drives do not reconnect. I have to
go into My Computer on the remote PC and select the mapped drive to manually
reconnect. The status before I manually reconnect actually shows that they
are unconnected network drives. Am I doing something wrong? It seems
pretty basic, so I don't know what else I could do. The annoyance is I
don't know that they did not reconnect until I start an application that
can't find its file because it can't get to the mapped folder. Thanks for
your help.
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Instead of relying on unreliable remembered connections, use
a startup batch file to force the connections you want. Place
the batch file "netlogon.bat" into the "Startup" subfolder of the
All Users profile:
@echo off
net use S: \\RemotePC\Share1
net use T: \\RemotePC\Share2

I also recommend that you run the following two commands
just once from a Command Prompt:
net use /persistent:no
net use * /del /yes

This should solve your problems permanently.
 
Thank you very much.

Pegasus (MVP) said:
Instead of relying on unreliable remembered connections, use
a startup batch file to force the connections you want. Place
the batch file "netlogon.bat" into the "Startup" subfolder of the
All Users profile:
@echo off
net use S: \\RemotePC\Share1
net use T: \\RemotePC\Share2

I also recommend that you run the following two commands
just once from a Command Prompt:
net use /persistent:no
net use * /del /yes

This should solve your problems permanently.
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