disconnected network drives

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charles Grossman

I have client who has sony vaios on a network. When he
mapps a drive it connects properly, but when the pc
reboots or is shut down the mapped drive shows it is
disconnected. The only way to use the drive is to open the
drive or log off. These pc are in a workgroup
 
charles said:
I have client who has sony vaios on a network. When he
mapps a drive it connects properly, but when the pc
reboots or is shut down the mapped drive shows it is
disconnected. The only way to use the drive is to open the
drive or log off. These pc are in a workgroup
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Try creating a .BAT including lines like

net use X: \\PCname\Sharename /persistent:yes <password>

where X: is the local name you want to use for the mapped
network drive.

Then, create a link in the startup folder to that .BAT
 
Charles said:
That was one of the first things I tried - it does not
reconnect at reboot
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I may have misunderstood your problem. The 'net use .BAT' is
a means to recover from client PC reboots, and won't help with
server PC reboots. I don't know of any automated way to recover
client connections upon server reboots.

Not that it helps, but I expect that client reboots would be
far more common than server reboots.
 
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