Mapped Drives

[BigDaddy]

The thing is:

When U mount a drive in Win2k and when U restart Win2k and the machine that has the MAPPED DRIVE connected to is offline, the annoying YES or NO question comes up right after bootup.

What must I do that that it would just ignore it and just assume that all MAPPED DRIVES are connected??

[Gurgelmeyer]

Yes, that is annoying. You could create a batch file and place it in the Programs -> Startup. Could look something like this:

@echo off
net use x: \\machine1\shared /persistent:no
net use y: \\machine2\morestuff /persistent:no

Ought to work.

[Gurgelmeyer]

PS - once placed in your Startup folder you can right click it from the Start menu and make sure it always runs minimized. B)

[BigDaddy]

Great will try it.

ps. When I put this into START UP do I have to UNMOUNT all the MAPPED DRIVES or all I have to do is just put it in START UP and all is well??

[Gurgelmeyer]

You'll have to unmount the mapped drives - the script will mount the drives that are available when it's run.

[BigDaddy]

But what happens to the computer that is offline? Will it not be MAPPED, even if it is written in the script?

[Gurgelmeyer]

The net use command will just fail if the share is unavailable, and the local drive letter won't even be created.

[BigDaddy]

I seee! That is no good to me!

Cos I want that all of the MAPPED drives are always there and that Windows would just assume that all of the computers are ONLINE even if they are not!

Is that possible?

[BigDaddy]

So is there no other solution to this annoyance?

[oioldman]

If you set persistant to yes, that should map whether it can be seen or not. However if you use different u/n & p/w to access the shares to the normal login it will still prompt for them to be entered and you will still then get the failure prompt at least.

[BigDaddy]

I've tried setting PERSISTENT to YES but it does nothing if the other computer is offline.

Any other ideas?

[IceBlackIce]

*bump*

then what do you want the computer to do if the shared folder is offline?

[BigDaddy]

I would like that the computer would just assume that the MAPPED drive is OFFLINE even if it isn't. Is that possible?

Or at least wouldn't BUG U if the mapped drive is OFFLINE, just like WinXP does it!

[BigDaddy]

Anyone?

[bledd]

one work around...

create a shotcut to the path you want, call it say G.lnk, whack this into system32 folder, now Start, Run G would bring up that path..

not mapping, but creating shortcut which can have a letter assigned to them...

-this works for all files and prorams by the way -shortuct put into system32 folder.