Mapped Drives

[Guest MikeS]

I have a Network with some 300 users. Ocassionally, a user( not always the

same user) will try to access one of the mapped drives or print to a network

printer and it will be unvailable. When you open "My Computer", all the

mapped drives will have a Red "X" over them. The only way to get them back

is to synchronize them.

 

Can anyone tell me what is causing this and how to fix it?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Mike

[Guest Skitrees]

RE: Mapped Drives

 

Can you manually run the logon script which maps the drives? If so - does it

remedy the situation for troubleshooting purposes (not a fix, just for

troubleshooting).

 

I've had a similar problem that ended up simply being network congestion

where the problem computer wasn't receiving a response from the server in a

timely fashion, so it just ditched its attempts to apply the policy.

However, running the logon script afterwards would work fine.

 

I changed some things around (DNS on one of the systems cause the issue),

and found a faulty switch. Changed it out and everything worked fine.

 

Not sure if any of this will help you - but I thought I'd share what I found

in a similar situation.

 

Good luck!

> Can anyone tell me what is causing this and how to fix it?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Mike

[Guest MikeS]

RE: Mapped Drives

 

Thanks for the info, Skitrees. Can you be more specific about the DNS issues?

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

 

"Skitrees" wrote:

> Can you manually run the logon script which maps the drives? If so - does it

> remedy the situation for troubleshooting purposes (not a fix, just for

> troubleshooting).

>

> I've had a similar problem that ended up simply being network congestion

> where the problem computer wasn't receiving a response from the server in a

> timely fashion, so it just ditched its attempts to apply the policy.

> However, running the logon script afterwards would work fine.

>

> I changed some things around (DNS on one of the systems cause the issue),

> and found a faulty switch. Changed it out and everything worked fine.

>

> Not sure if any of this will help you - but I thought I'd share what I found

> in a similar situation.

>

> Good luck!

> > Can anyone tell me what is causing this and how to fix it?

> >

> > Thanks in advance,

> >

> > Mike

[Guest Skitrees]

RE: Mapped Drives

 

Mike,

 

Sorry for the delayed response - the one case I was mentioning was that the

computer in question had been statically assigned an odd DNS as it's primary

- instead of using the server's IP as the primary. I just changed it over to

DHCP and let that take care of it - but I have seen instances where poor

quality routers (actiontek? 1700GW?) wouldn't allow you to pass the server's

IP as the DNS via DHCP, and then similar problems would show up. The fix was

to either buy a router/firewall, or to manually assign the server's IP as the

primary DNS.

 

Not sure this will apply in your case, but that's what I was refering to.

 

Skitrees