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re: How to make a mapped drive consistently connected? Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:59 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) You shouldn't be losing this mapping in the first place, if the drive is still there and accessible ! Mappings normally persist through all sorts of events, including re-booting the host device. Can you describe how you set this up, and the circumstances where you are finding a re-map necessary ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to make a mapped drive consistently connected? Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:36 am Posted by Francis (19 messages posted) As i have a program that is constantly writing to some files in this mapped drive. But whenever there is an intermittent lost of network connectivity, the mapped drive may have lost the connection although the mapped drive still exist. And the files at this mapped drive may get corrupted when this happens. So i wanted to make sure that i constantly have the network connection to this mapped drive. Even when the network is intermittent, i am able to re-establish back the mapped drive connection when the network is back. Is it possible? Thanks. On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:59 am, MartinM wrote: > >You shouldn't be losing this mapping in the first place, if the drive is still there >and accessible ! Mappings normally persist through all sorts of events, including >re-booting the host device. > >Can you describe how you set this up, and the circumstances where you are finding >a re-map necessary ? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to make a mapped drive consistently connected? Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:44 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Not really possible in the way you want. Once the connection is interrupted and the transfer interrupted, re-establishing the connection is not going to uncorrupt (if there is such a verb !) your files. The flaw in the setup you have is in the transfer mechanism which is not resilient enough to what it is having to cope with. You need the equivalent of a download manager, but its the applications which are driving the transfer which you need to be changing. That of course may be impossible. But the underlying issue is really one of the design of your application architecture. For instance why not have the program write to a local drive and then use a separate process to copy to your network drive - then you can re-copy if the oringianl copy process fails through interruption ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to make a mapped drive consistently connected? Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:14 pm Posted by Francis (19 messages posted) yes, i agree with you. Thanks alot for the advice. On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:44 pm, MartinM wrote: > >Not really possible in the way you want. > >Once the connection is interrupted and the transfer interrupted, re-establishing >the connection is not going to uncorrupt (if there is such a verb !) your files. > >The flaw in the setup you have is in the transfer mechanism which is not resilient >enough to what it is having to cope with. You need the equivalent of a download manager, >but its the applications which are driving the transfer which you need to be changing. >That of course may be impossible. > >But the underlying issue is really one of the design of your application architecture. >For instance why not have the program write to a local drive and then use a separate >process to copy to your network drive - then you can re-copy if the oringianl copy >process fails through interruption ? > [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