Mapped Drive disconnecting

[Guest]

I have a about 15 users who map to a shared directory on my server. Their
mapped drives keep dropping after a while. If they reboot, this will
reconnect their mapped drives. I don't want them to reconnect. I have already
ran net config server /autodisconnect:-1. Any other suggestions?
Please advise?

Kev

 

[Phillip Windell]

The best suggestion is to not use mapped drives. They are a "thing of the
past" and are always problematic. Use "shortcuts" to the UNC path instead.
You can place those shortcuts anywhere you want and they will always work.
Drop the shortcut into the My Documents folder of each user, when they go
there (which most Apps default to there) the shortcut will "appear" as an
additional folder in the My Documents and they can get right to it.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response. The only problem with the shortcuts is that the
reason for the mapped drive is b/c my users run an .exe off that mapped drive
that resides on the server. So when the mapped drive disconnects, it will not
load up, thus requiring my users to reboot to reconnect the drive so they can
run the .exe program. My next step is to try and use DFS and see if that
helps. any other suggestions?

The best suggestion is to not use mapped drives. They are a "thing of the
past" and are always problematic. Use "shortcuts" to the UNC path instead.
You can place those shortcuts anywhere you want and they will always work.
Drop the shortcut into the My Documents folder of each user, when they go
there (which most Apps default to there) the shortcut will "appear" as an
additional folder in the My Documents and they can get right to it.


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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

I have a about 15 users who map to a shared directory on my server. Their
mapped drives keep dropping after a while. If they reboot, this will
reconnect their mapped drives. I don't want them to reconnect. I have already
ran net config server /autodisconnect:-1. Any other suggestions?
Please advise?

Kev

 

[Phillip Windell]

You can run an *.exe from a UNC path just fine. Although I do realize that
some apps don't execute or run properly that way,...we used to have one
here. It finally went away and so did the mapped drive with it.

They shouldn't have to reboot. All they should have to do is click
(double-click?) on the Drive icon in Windows Explorer to "wake up" the
conncetion.

I have no other ideas. I don't run mapped drive except for a couple
situations on a couple machines. In those cases they work just fine and I
don't experience the same problem you have. so I'm not sure what else to
suggest since you already disabled the autodisconnect.

Double check your method of disabling autodisconnect. I don't recall it
being done the way you did it. I thought it was a regular registry entry
done via Regedit,...so maybe yours really is not disabled yet.


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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Thanks for your response. The only problem with the shortcuts is that the
reason for the mapped drive is b/c my users run an .exe off that mapped drive
that resides on the server. So when the mapped drive disconnects, it will not
load up, thus requiring my users to reboot to reconnect the drive so they can
run the .exe program. My next step is to try and use DFS and see if that
helps. any other suggestions?

The best suggestion is to not use mapped drives. They are a "thing of the
past" and are always problematic. Use "shortcuts" to the UNC path instead.
You can place those shortcuts anywhere you want and they will always work.
Drop the shortcut into the My Documents folder of each user, when they go
there (which most Apps default to there) the shortcut will "appear" as an
additional folder in the My Documents and they can get right to it.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

I have a about 15 users who map to a shared directory on my server. Their
mapped drives keep dropping after a while. If they reboot, this will
reconnect their mapped drives. I don't want them to reconnect. I have already
ran net config server /autodisconnect:-1. Any other suggestions?
Please advise?

Kev