Preventing Mapped Drives from Disconnecting

[klintman]

Just a question...

Have a small peer-to-peer network. There is a server/workstation to which several computer have mapped drives. Occasionally I have to reboot this computer and the other computers loose their connections to the drives until they go into My Computer and double-click the drive. Is there any way to prevent this? Or possibly could I put a batch file together as a quick solution?

Thanks.

[jettlag]

You said server right?

If you you can try a logon script using the net use commands. I never liked the map drive feature in win9x. If you not connected to the network it can turn your printers offline and cause all kinds of heahaches. WHenver possible use login scripts.

[I.R. Admin]

Apart from login scripts, make sure that 'Logon and restore networks connections' is selected in the 'Client for Microsoft Networks' properties (this assuming that you are using the client).

[Geek #1]

I assume that you are using the Microsoft Clients for Networks, if so -

1) map the drive
2) tick the box at the bottom marked "Reconnect at Logon"

Voila, as they say.

If you are using a proper server OS then play with login scripts, they are not that hard.

[Gabriel]

Guys all of you are right but not answering the Posters Question...He said he is mapping the drive, The drive is mapped, But you have to click on them in Explorer to get them worked.
My best shot is that you are using Windows 2000
This is a bug that is corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
If you ask me it is not a bug because this way you conserve Valuable network Bandwidth.

[klintman]

Sorry... Let me give more specifics... all the computers on the LAN use Windows 98. One has 98SE, but it is still affected.

Everything is setup correctly in MS Networking on all the comps... all connections are restored properly at startup... the only thing is that the mapped drives get dissed when the server/workstation has to reboot every once in a while (normally whenever I update the computer).

I'm curious about the login scripts. Will that really prevent the mapped drives from getting dissed if I put it in the startup folder? I suppose I could put a login script on all their desktops and teach everyone to use it if the drives get dissed? What would be really cool if I could run these scripts on all the clients from MY computer... that way I wouldn't have to get up and go to each one or have to teach anyone new tricks.

Thanks for the help.

[imaeditedbysowulo]

[quote]Originally posted by klintman:
<strong>What would be really cool if I could run these scripts on all the clients from MY computer... that way I wouldn't have to get up and go to each one or have to teach anyone new tricks.

Thanks for the help.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I found a program that does that, you can execute any file without even standing up from your chair. You can also reboot the client computer, log them off, or see a screenshot of their desktop. It's freeware, it's called Cobcats, I found it on <a href="http://www.webattack.com" target="_blank">www.webattack.com</a>

I haven't tried it yet at work, but after a week on my home pc's, I am very impressed with it.

[Warp_Core]

You could try net use X: \\servername\share /persistent:yes, where X: is the drive letter you want to map to. If you run it one time it should stick until you run it again with .../persistent:no

[klintman]

Thank you all for the great replies. I now have some good ideas to work with and I believe I will have a solution.

BTW I'm very impressed with <a href="http://www.webattack.com" target="_blank">www.webattack.com</a>