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Drive mappings

A user in my organization is having an issue where his drives are disappearing from his My Computer. When I do a net use command I can see the drives are mapped. I ultimately do a net use * d /y and run his log on script again but I would like to get to the bottom of this.

Any ideas why this is happening? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

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federicomarinucci

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Hossy

Is the log on script creating persistent drive mappings?

The log on script may not run each time the user logs in. For example, in the case of a laptop on wireless: the wireless connection, upon startup, may not yet be available when the user logs into the computer. Windows, then, will used cached credentials to authenticate the user and allow access. However, since the computer is offline, no domain contact occurs and no log on script runs.

Hossy

If your problem is due to the network connection being unavailable at the time of logon, a solution would be to disable Fast Logon Optimization: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293

CarlosTerron

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Thanks for the responses.

federico, I'll try the cleaning up approach and report back.

Hossy, the user's logon script has net use /persistent:no on it. The user is on desktop though. Can you tell me what persitent: no will do?

Thanks again

Hossy

/persistent:no is actually fluff since the default value is 'no'

nonetheless...it instructs Windows to only map the drive for that session. It doesn't remember the drive mapping and therefore when the drive will not be remapped upon subsequent logins.

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Thanks