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re: Consistant Drive Mappings Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 4:19 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Show your batch file here. I've been doing that for about ten years, never had a problem. On Friday, July 17, 2009 at 4:28 pm, Shimmy wrote: >I need to map a drive, I have a .bat file setup that works great, I have this .bat >file in the All Users Startup directory. The issue I am having is that for some >reason the drive mapping does not consistantly happen. > >I can shut the system down, power it up and the drive maps fine, shut the system >down again, boot it up and the drive will not map, if I browes to the .bat file and >launch it, it works like a champ. > >It is just not consistant and I cannot figure out why. A friend told me to change >it to a .cmd file and that would work better, but I'm not so sure about that. > >Ideas anyone? > >Thanks >Shimmy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Consistant Drive Mappings Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 11:57 pm Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted) Why use a batch file? If you map the drive using Explorer and tick "Reconnect at Logon" it will stay mapped. If you have multiple users you will have to do it for all of them of course... If you have another reason to use a batch file (e.g. to avoid notification of disconnected drives), it will at least test if there is a network problem.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Consistant Drive Mappings Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:54 am Posted by Shimmy (66 messages posted) NET use v: \\SERVERNAME\SHARE\DIR /user:JOEBLOW PASSWORD Here is what I have been using On Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 4:19 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Show your batch file here. I've been doing that for about ten years, never had a >problem. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Consistant Drive Mappings Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:56 am Posted by Shimmy (66 messages posted) There are a few reasons why I chose to use the .bat file, but in some cases I have manually mapped the drive, however just this morning, I had issues with this as well....the drive letter was there, no little red X, but when I clicked on it it prompted me for a password...that's no good, the users are in an application that requires that drive in order to function. On Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 11:57 pm, NigelHH wrote: >Why use a batch file? If you map the drive using Explorer and tick "Reconnect at >Logon" it will stay mapped. If you have multiple users you will have to do it for >all of them of course... > >If you have another reason to use a batch file (e.g. to avoid notification of disconnected >drives), it will at least test if there is a network problem.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Consistant Drive Mappings Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 1:51 am Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Any clues in event viewer? You might have an intermittent network problem in play that causes the system to not be able to contact the server. On Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:56 am, Shimmy wrote: >There are a few reasons why I chose to use the .bat file, but in some cases I have >manually mapped the drive, however just this morning, I had issues with this as well....the >drive letter was there, no little red X, but when I clicked on it it prompted me >for a password...that's no good, the users are in an application that requires that >drive in order to function. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum