Network Drive Vanishing

[Cory Blythe]

I have a rather strange and isolate problem I'm hoping I can get some insight
on.

I have one user on a network of 200+ that is 'losing' a mapped network
drive. This drive is a shared folder on a server that has several other
mapped drives on it. It is the only drive that vanishes and this user is the
only one experiencing it to our knowledge. The drive doesn't disconnect it
is simply gone and needs to be remapped manually.

Thanks for any insight.

Cory Blythe

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a rather strange and isolate problem I'm hoping I can get some
insight
on.

I have one user on a network of 200+ that is 'losing' a mapped network
drive. This drive is a shared folder on a server that has several other
mapped drives on it. It is the only drive that vanishes and this user is
the
only one experiencing it to our knowledge. The drive doesn't disconnect
it
is simply gone and needs to be remapped manually.

Thanks for any insight.

Cory Blythe

You probably have some agent on this machine that disconnects
the drive, perhaps a scheduled task. To get a handle on the problem,
I would invoke the following batch file via the user's logon script.
It will run in a minimized window and is therefore less obtrusive to
the user.
01. @echo off
02. if not "%1"=="" goto Run
03. start "Monitor" /min d:\temp\try.bat xxx
04. goto :eof
05.
06. :Run
07. echo %date% %time% >> c:\test.txt
08. net use | find ":" >> c:\test.txt
09. echo. >> c:\test.txt
10. ping localhost -n 60 > nul
11. goto run

Make sure to specify the correct name for this batch file
in Line 03. so that it can invoke itself.

Now examine the file c:\test.txt on the user's PC from your
own console and make a note of the times when the network
drive vanishes.