Mapped drive annoyance

[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.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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.

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.

 

[BillW]

Thank you very much.

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.

 

[Plato]

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

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04

Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx

 

[BillW]

Thank you, Plato. I really appreciate the information.

 

[Plato]

Thank you, Plato. I really appreciate the information.

You're welcome.