Mapped Drives Issues

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Forrest

I have three computers out of 9, all in the same workgroup
who loose connection to mapped drives when they reboot.
Its not always the same mapped drive and sometimes its a
captured printer setup through Net Use. Any suggestions
would be great.

Thanks,
Forrest
 
you probably map the network driver trough ip adress and
the ipadress is given by a DHCP server somewhere in the
network.

if this is the case you can use the computer name to map
drives and you can create a .bat file which you can load
whenever the computer starts up.
you can easily create a bat file by creating a new .txt
file and renaming it to .bat and edit it with notepad.

in the bat file the disk we are going to create is E:
where C: is the hard disk D: is the cd-rom drive.
the computer that has the share is called testmachine and
the share is called sharedfolder.
the printer is also on the computer testmachine but the
printer is called printmachine and is also shared.
<------------Bat File---------------->
@echo off

net use E: \\testmachine\sharedfolder

net use lpt1: \\testmachine\printmachine
<-----------end of file-------------->

be sure that the user that is accesing the shares has the
rights otherwise the user has to type the password in a
dos prompt.

this way you are not stuck to ip adresses that change
every now and then and it will start everytime you atart
the pc ( if you put it in the startup folder )

hope it was of any help
 
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