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Guest Cory Blythe
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I have a rather strange and isolate problem I'm hoping I can get some insight

on.

 

I have one user on a network of 200+ that is 'losing' a mapped network

drive. This drive is a shared folder on a server that has several other

mapped drives on it. It is the only drive that vanishes and this user is the

only one experiencing it to our knowledge. The drive doesn't disconnect it

is simply gone and needs to be remapped manually.

 

Thanks for any insight.

 

Cory Blythe

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Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Re: Network Drive Vanishing

 

 

"Cory Blythe" <CoryBlythe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:CDD91374-700D-4E59-A280-618C1240EE5C@microsoft.com...

>I have a rather strange and isolate problem I'm hoping I can get some

>insight

> on.

>

> I have one user on a network of 200+ that is 'losing' a mapped network

> drive. This drive is a shared folder on a server that has several other

> mapped drives on it. It is the only drive that vanishes and this user is

> the

> only one experiencing it to our knowledge. The drive doesn't disconnect

> it

> is simply gone and needs to be remapped manually.

>

> Thanks for any insight.

>

> Cory Blythe

>

 

You probably have some agent on this machine that disconnects

the drive, perhaps a scheduled task. To get a handle on the problem,

I would invoke the following batch file via the user's logon script.

It will run in a minimized window and is therefore less obtrusive to

the user.

01. @echo off

02. if not "%1"=="" goto Run

03. start "Monitor" /min d:\temp\try.bat xxx

04. goto :eof

05.

06. :Run

07. echo %date% %time% >> c:\test.txt

08. net use | find ":" >> c:\test.txt

09. echo. >> c:\test.txt

10. ping localhost -n 60 > nul

11. goto run

 

Make sure to specify the correct name for this batch file

in Line 03. so that it can invoke itself.

 

Now examine the file c:\test.txt on the user's PC from your

own console and make a note of the times when the network

drive vanishes.


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