Losing Mapped Network Drives

[hughes_da_man]

Hi everyone,

Hopefully you guys have some insight on this problem because I'm running out of ideas.

EDIT: I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 by the way...

There is a user in my office who has the "O" drive mapped onto her system. One of the programs we use in the office uses this "O" drive to run so it must be mapped for the user to use the program.

When she logs in all of her network drives get mapped except this one. We use batch scripts for restoring mapped drives on login. The "O" drive is mapped but it says "Network Drive" beside it and it isn't mapped to the right location (it almost seems like it's mapped to a random network drive on the network). When I go and try to remove and map another drive for her in the "O" drive location I can't do it because it's no longer a choice for drives to map a drive to.

I've rebuilt her system and she has the same issue.

I'm stumped...any ideas?

-Mike

Edited July 4, 2005 by hughes_da_man

[spiritpyre]

You might try entering the mapped drive info directly into the registry.

Here's a template i made for a .reg file that *should* do this but you'll probably want to test it to be on the safe side: I'm not sure if this would work under 2000, but it works fine under xp home and i would assume that since both are nt-based it wouldn't cause a problem.

Edited July 5, 2005 by spiritpyre

[valter]

Can you post both batch files here, your and her so we can take a look ...

[hughes_da_man]

Can you post both batch files here, your and her so we can take a look ...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'll paste them a little later if I have time. It shouldn't be the batch file though as I've replaced her batch file with my own and had the exact same issue where mine still works fine.

It basically just maps the network drives using "net use..."

I tried something out yesterday and it fixed the problem. Thanks for all your help guys and I'll use your template if the problem comes back.

To fix it I removed her batch script and restarted her computer. I logged her on to the system and disconnected any mapped drives that still existed. I restarted her system again and logged her on to the system again. I then mapped (with reconnect) the drive and restarted her system. The drive mapped correctly and so I left it as is. I then went back and restored her batch script. I restarted her computer and logged her in and all the drives were mapped correctly. I'm assuming that a drive was getting mapped twice or incorrectly mapped and the batch script was only helping to make it worse.

Again, thanks for all your help guys...