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Getting mapped network drive connected.

Asked by Blinkr in Wireless Technologies, Windows XP Operating System, Windows Networking

Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP, SP2

I have a client that has a Macbook that I have installed Windows XP on a second partition.

My problem is that it uses wireless networking & doesn't completely connect to a mapped drive when it starts up. I have tried using Windows drive mapping with reconnect on startup, & put a batch file in the startup folder that deletes & remaps the drive when Windows starts. But, with either, when I start their main application, it is unable to find the database in the folder on their main computer (also Windows XP). If I connect the laptop to a wired connection, the program finds the database on their main PC, & runs fine. So it is definitely something to do with the wireless.

When using the wireless after starting up, I can find the mapped drive & open it. THEN the programs runs fine. But when using the wireless connection, I can't get the program to run unless I access the mapped drive (which is mapped to the folder that contains the database. This program doesn't use SQL server either.

It appears that the wireless connection doesn't have enough time on bootup to fully access the networked drive. So the program isn't able to see the folder on the other PC that contains the database. With the wired connection, it evidently has enough time to fully access the networked drive.

Is there anyway to give the wireless connection more time to find & fully access the networked drive? It looks like the wireless connection maps the drive but doesn't open or look inside at the contents so that the program knows where the database files are.

Any suggestions??

Here's the batch file I'm using:

TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,15 >NUL
Net use g: /delete
Net use g: \\192.168.1.102\c\softdent /persistent:yes

I'm using the "Type NUL..." to let Windows bootup a little farther before mapping the drive.

Thanks!!
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