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Disconnected Network Drives
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I have windows xp pro on 12 machines and all are connected to a windows 2003 server. All the machines have service pack 2 on with the firewall turned off. After startup and log in some of the users go into the my computer icon and see that their mapped network drives say "disconnected network drive", but when they click on the drive letter they can access the folders and files on that drive. Any ideas on why they are getting the "disconnected network drive" or is there a way to get that drive to be connected after login. Thanks |
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Disconnected Network Drives
kb_63 wrote:
Hello, I have windows xp pro on 12 machines and all are connected to a windows 2003 server. All the machines have service pack 2 on with the firewall turned off. After startup and log in some of the users go into the my computer icon and see that their mapped network drives say "disconnected network drive", but when they click on the drive letter they can access the folders and files on that drive. Any ideas on why they are getting the "disconnected network drive" or is there a way to get that drive to be connected after login. Thanks See http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;297684 Are you on a domain, or is this a workgroup? You are nearly always better off using login scripts rather than relying on locally mapped/controlled drive letters. net use * /del net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no net use y: \\server\othershare /persistent:no etc. |
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Disconnected Network Drives
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:03:04 -0800, "kb_63"
wrote: Hello, I have windows xp pro on 12 machines and all are connected to a windows 2003 server. All the machines have service pack 2 on with the firewall turned off. After startup and log in some of the users go into the my computer icon and see that their mapped network drives say "disconnected network drive", but when they click on the drive letter they can access the folders and files on that drive. Any ideas on why they are getting the "disconnected network drive" or is there a way to get that drive to be connected after login. Thanks Windows automatically disconnects drive connections when they're not in use after a specified amount of time. With Windows XP servers, this is to your advantage to do so, to conserve available simultaneous connections. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882 As you've discovered, when you click on a disconnected drive, Windows automatically reconnects. Unless the time delay caused by the reconnect is a problem (are you that impatient?), it is to your advantage to leave it at that. If you select "Reconnect when logging in" when setting up a share, Windows will automatically reconnect. You'll still be stuck with the "disconnected network drive" timeout though. If you wish, you can increase the timeout, possibly to infinity. Read the article. -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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