Wireless with Mapped Drives problem

[Guest]

I have two Windows 2000 laptops with Dlink wireless cards. I have mapped a
network drive to an XP pro machine acting as a server in a peer-to-peer
environment. Everytime the Windows 2000 computers are rebooted, it comes up
with an error reconnecting to the share. The reason being..... The Dlink
software loads after the mappings occur. I want to know how I can get the
Dlink software to load first, establish a connection to the network, then map
the drive.

 

[Bob I]

Don't "map" the drive until the wireless setup is complete. use a bat
file, shortcut or other method of "restoring" the mapping.

 

[Guest]

Bob,

Thanks for the response. I have actually tried the bat file technique
however my client finds it to be a nuisance to have to remeber to do this. It
doesn't work if a put it in the logon script and would have to be manually
executed. Do you have any other suggestions for possibly automating the
process?

 

[Bob I]

Try putting the "drive mapping" batfile in Taskscheduler, with a delay.
Try setting up a delay in the mapping file to "ping" the "server" and
when it becomes available then continue the map.
Try just putting a "LONG" delay in the bat file for mapping.