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Local drive share is lost after a restart

Hi Experts! I have a client that has two firewire hard-drives. He rotates the drives weekly as a simple form of back-up and off-site storage. When he connects the drive on Monday, the "G:" drive is listed and shared but the share name (shared1) that the other pc's are mapped to is lost. I have to remote in and re-create that share and then everyone can get back in. Why does the drive share get dropped and have to be re-created after a reboot or when the drive is changed? It seems like it just started happening. Thanks for your help.

Would a local login script work?

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Kenneniah

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gs121

Not 100% sure, but probably the computer can tell the drive has been switched.

I would stop switching the hd, if the computer has a free firewire port, use the builtin program "backup " to backup the data to the other hd. It would be best to have two extra hds, just bring them in one at a time to do a overnight backup and rotate them offsite.

samiam41

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HAHAHAHA!!! Awesome.....

Thanks for the post. I sure hope that works. I will remote in this weekend and give it a shot. I knew there had to be a way and some expert out there would be generous enough to tell me. Have a good weekend!

samiam41

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qs121 > This client is stubborn and looking for a solution to meet their "unique" needs. I would love for them to change the way they do the backups but as of now, they want to make it work this way.

I will give Kenneniah's suggestion a shot and then if that doesn't work, try a version of your suggestion.

Thanks!

samiam41

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Sorry for the delay. I have been working with another client which has killed my extra time. I will remote in tonight or tomorrow night and post back what I find. I appreciate your patience.

samiam41

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Dead-on. Great suggestion! Thanks for the help. Take care!

-Aaron