Network drive becomes unaccessible ...

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A WinXP/sp2 user has a mapped drive to a third party mainframe that works
like 90% of the time. But several times a week in the middle of the day the
drive will be come unaccessible (logon failed type of thing) after using it
successfully all morning and the user will be unable to access the resource.
All of the other 100 WinXP/sp2 users have a mapped drive to the same resource
and do not have this problem. What would be the best steps to try and
diagnose and resovle this problem ? TIA ...
 
E-Double said:
A WinXP/sp2 user has a mapped drive to a third party mainframe that works
like 90% of the time. But several times a week in the middle of the day the
drive will be come unaccessible (logon failed type of thing) after using it
successfully all morning and the user will be unable to access the resource.
All of the other 100 WinXP/sp2 users have a mapped drive to the same resource
and do not have this problem. What would be the best steps to try and
diagnose and resovle this problem ? TIA ...
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When typing this command from a Command Prompt, what
exactly do you see on the screen:

net use x: \\YourServer\YourShare
 
Hi, Thanks for the reply. So when mapping this drive we should use a script,
logon script, or batch file instead of using the My Network Places/Map
Network Drive sequence ? This would work for us, but I was just not sure if
the Map Network Drive option did the same thing as far as WinXP was concerned.

Thanks,

e.
 
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. When typing from a command
prompt now we get the following: A Local Device Name Is Already In Use. But I
will check that command again this afternoon when it actually gets
disconnected again.

Thanks,

e.
 
Yes, you can use a script to map drives.

If you get the message about a drive already in use,
type this command:

dir x:\

where "x" is the letter of your problem drive. What
do you see?

Now type these commands and report what you see:
net use x: /del
net use x: \\YourServer\YourShare
dir x:\
 
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