Mapped drives NOT connected at boot

[Lerner]

I'm having an awful time with my PC and the main issue is that none of my
mapped drives are available after booting until I specifically open them
first.

Because of this I get numerous "O:\Documents" not valid or "R:\" unavailable
messages while using the PC.

When I mapped the drives I specifically checked the "Reconnect al logon"
option but it makes no difference. The drives are mapped but they are NOT
connected.

How can I ensure that all my mapped drives are already available by the time
I'm at my desktop?

System is Windows XP Pro SP1 on a Workgroup. My profile is the only one on
this PC and the network is always there (no roaming, etc.) Most of the
shares are to a Windows 2003 server that is NOT a domain controller or
running AD.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I am pretty sure that this is because you are not in a domain envrironment
and there is therefore no central authentication scheme. The reason is
becuase the authenticated connection disappears on restart and does not re
authenticate until you try to open the drive. What i would do is use a
script that instead creates the mapped drives on each login to the computer,
that way the authentication is run each time.

 

[Lerner]

Hrm... so how would I go about doing this?

For example:
- drive X: is mapped to \\server\Documents
- drive M: is mapped to \\server\Media

Thx!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Create this batch file on your PC:

c:\Documents and Settings\Lerner\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat
or:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat

with these lines:

@echo off
net use /persistentff
net use x: \\server\documents
net use m: \\server\media

 

[Lerner]

c:\Documents and Settings\Lerner\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat

or:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat

with these lines:

@echo off
net use /persistentff
net use x: \\server\documents
net use m: \\server\media

Thanks muchly!

This worked fine, with one little change...

net use /persistent:no

: )

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem but I'll go one step further. I tried a VBS script
to reconnect but the error says "network path not found". I put a for/next
loop to delay the script and it works if the delay is long enough. But
here's the rub, my clients 3rd party software runs from the All Users Startup
folder and tries to find the drive BEFORE the delay runs out and the drive
will reconnect. This is a major problem for our application. Workstations
are XP pro SP1 and in this case the server was 2K. How can I get XP to find
the drive faster so the script will work so my software can find it's
database?

Help!