Network drive mapping not appearing in My Computer and Explorer

[Stefan]

I have a strange problem with Network drive mappings not appearing in
My Computer and Explorer. The strange thing is that the network drive
mappings do appear in application like office. This happens at random
times and is fixed by getting the user to log out and back in again.
The Network drives are mapped by a login script that does an LDAP
query of the AD and then maps the network drives according to group
membership. The network is made up of Windows 2003 domain controllers
and Windows XP SP1 Workstations.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I have a strange problem with Network drive mappings not appearing in
My Computer and Explorer. The strange thing is that the network drive
mappings do appear in application like office. This happens at random
times and is fixed by getting the user to log out and back in again.
The Network drives are mapped by a login script that does an LDAP
query of the AD and then maps the network drives according to group
membership. The network is made up of Windows 2003 domain controllers
and Windows XP SP1 Workstations.

Try tip 4133 and link in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Delay the start of the netlogon service, using tip 69.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[David Everett [MSFT]]

It sounds like Explorer is loading before the script completes. Here are
two additional things you might try:

1) Enable the policy "Run logon scripts synchronously" since this will allow
for
completion of the logon script before starting the shell.

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Scripts

2) Disable Fast Logon Optomization by setting the option "Always wait for
the network at computer startup and logon" to Disabled in the policy.

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon

Run gpupdate/ force on the client mahcine after replication of the policy
completes.


--
David Everett
Microsoft Corporation

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