Skip messages about "not able to restore network connections"

[Philip Nienhuis]

Googled a bit for this but can't find a solution. Only a number of
threads with merely the same question....

When booting W2K on my home LAN (workgroup) while one of the other boxes
where W2K has network connections is down, W2K usually presents a box
that it can't find the network drive and asks if the connection should
be restored in the future.

I want to get rid of having to click "OK", so that W2K boots up further
w/o user interference.

I'd rather have the behaviour W98 has, i.e., it doesn't verify the
connection and simply proceeds ("quick logon").

Any suggestions?

Philip

 

[Phillip Windell]

Any suggestions?

Yea. Don't use mapped drives,..they are "caveman" technology from the old
DOS days. Use the UNC Paths instead, save them as "Shortcuts". Shorcuts
never complain and they never timeout and disconnect because they are only
active to moment you use them and do nothing the rest of the time.

 

[Philip Nienhuis]

Yea. Don't use mapped drives,..they are "caveman" technology from the old
DOS days. Use the UNC Paths instead, save them as "Shortcuts". Shorcuts
never complain and they never timeout and disconnect because they are only
active to moment you use them and do nothing the rest of the time.

Thanks.
Well, that is solution # 1.
I disagree a bit about the "caveman" perception, but that's my fault ;-)

Still I seek an option where W2K doesn't verify the mapped network drive
but rather takes their presence for granted provisionally.
This is because some programs/installers need drive letters as they
choke on UNC paths sooner or later. Those wacky progs/installers have
not been written by me BTW, but they simply exist.

Is W2K simply not able to relax its mapped network drive checks? No
registry hacks or whatever?

Philip

 

[Phillip Windell]

Is W2K simply not able to relax its mapped network drive checks? No
registry hacks or whatever?

I think you are stuck with dealing with them.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Why not map each drive with the following:

net use x: \\servername\sharename /persistent:no

so that Windows won't try to re-connect when you restart?

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[Philip Nienhuis]

Why not map each drive with the following:

net use x: \\servername\sharename /persistent:no

so that Windows won't try to re-connect when you restart?

..... and put it in a .cmd-file with a shortcut in e.g., the All Users
startup folder.
That's exactly what I thought of last night and implemented today. And
it works. Thank you nevertheless/anyway.

No hard feelings, not at all, but could it be the "DOS is caveman time"
attitude that prohibits some people from thinking up the obvious? ;-)

BTW this confronts me with a little deficit of Windows: it lacks a
Shutdown folder. Have I overlooked it or is there an analogous option?

Philip N.

 

[Phillip Windell]

Richards solution is fine and I never denied that because it hadn't been
brought up at that point.

No hard feelings, not at all, but could it be the "DOS is caveman time"
attitude that prohibits some people from thinking up the obvious? ;-)

It is not an "attitude",...and I wasn't talking about DOS,...I was talking
specifically about "mapped drive" which do actually have issues which you
have discovered and have worked around.

Old Applications (and poorly written ones) may require mapped drives. We
have some here. If you are stuck using them,..then you have to use them.
But developers need to wake up and write Applications so that they don't
need mapped drives in the first place.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

In a domain you can run a shutdown script file, but standalone PCs can't, at
least as far as I know of.

And I'm glad you did get it figured out even if I was too late.

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