Lose connection to mapped drives on reboot

17 Feb 2005 10:03 PM

MJG

I have a network running XP clients and a Win2K server. When I add a new
computer to the domain, the first time I log on my login script maps drives.
If I reboot the computer and login again I have problems opening 'my
computer' or 'explorer'. It hangs and if it does open I can't open the
mapped drives and get an error that I may not have permission to use that
resource.
If I change the computer back to a workgroup and then add it back
to the domain I can access the drives again but I can't reboot the computer
or I'll lose the connections. Can anyone help? I can't keep removing the
computer from the domain and adding back again every morning.

19 Feb 2005 6:12 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

MJG wrote:

> I have a network running XP clients and a Win2K server. When I add a
> new computer to the domain, the first time I log on my login script
> maps drives. If I reboot the computer and login again I have problems
> opening 'my computer' or 'explorer'. It hangs and if it does open I
> can't open the mapped drives and get an error that I may not have
> permission to use that resource.
> If I change the computer back to a workgroup and then add it back
> to the domain I can access the drives again but I can't reboot the
> computer or I'll lose the connections. Can anyone help? I can't
> keep removing the computer from the domain and adding back again
> every morning.

Delete any locally mapped drives on all your computers:

net use * /del

In a batch file login script, you could use the following

net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no
net use y: \\server\anothershare /persistent:no
net use u: /home /persistent:no

etc.

And make sure you don't have any drive mappings pointing to unavailable
shares.