Mapped Drives on laptops

[maxrawson]

Periodically, mapped drives on laptops will not "remap" when the users
log back into the network. Once this happens I remap the drive for
them and things work okay for awhile. Not all laptop users are
affected...mainly just the President, go figure. Any thoughts from
anyone....is there a setting or a bug that I'm overlooking?

Thanks in advance for your time,

Max

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Periodically, mapped drives on laptops will not "remap" when the users
log back into the network. Once this happens I remap the drive for
them and things work okay for awhile. Not all laptop users are
affected...mainly just the President, go figure. Any thoughts from
anyone....is there a setting or a bug that I'm overlooking?

Thanks in advance for your time,

Max

Instead of relying on "remembered" drive letters, use a logon
script to mape the drives at logon time. In this way you stay
in control at all times.

@echo off
net use /persistent:no
net use S: \\YourServer\Finance

 

[maxrawson]

Thanks for your reply...tried it and it worked.

I was just thinking though, in AD, I've set each users' Home Folder to
connect to U: \\ServerName\Users$\%username%. Isn't this supposed to
do the same thing? If so, why would it not work sometimes when laptop
users logon to the network after being away.

One other piece of info, laptop users connect to our network remotely
via ISA server VPN services. Complaints have been made that they
cannot connect to their user folder when VPN'ed in. Do you think
these things might be related?

-Max

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for your reply...tried it and it worked.

I was just thinking though, in AD, I've set each users' Home Folder to
connect to U: \\ServerName\Users$\%username%. Isn't this supposed to
do the same thing? If so, why would it not work sometimes when laptop
users logon to the network after being away.

One other piece of info, laptop users connect to our network remotely
via ISA server VPN services. Complaints have been made that they
cannot connect to their user folder when VPN'ed in. Do you think
these things might be related?

-Max

I do not use the "Home Folder" concept, hence I cannot help you
there. I suggest you report this question in a Server newsgroup.

You write "they cannot connect to their user folder when VPN'ed in".
This statement means nothing to me: I don't know what exactly
they are doing when connecting to their user folders and I don't
know what message (if any) they get when they try.

 

[Guest]

The ease way for you wold be to make a logon.cmd where you make all the
maping in and put it in the laptops c:\ and make a shortcut in the start menu
or just put a shortcut on the desktop, so when they connect via VPN they just
press the shortcut and all there drives will be connected, for a security
reason when you map the drives use server IP's insted og Server names this
way you are shure off they will connect, also when the DNS or the WINS wil
not have been sent to there laptops.

Jan