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Users randomly lose mapped network drives

Hi folks :)

Towards the last part of last year I upgraded our windows servers from 2003 to 2012.

Since then I have had a number of users say they lose there mapped drives.

We use department-specific login scripts that are specified in the users AD profile.

I have tried adding a net use delete command before the net use map command.

Everything will be fine for a couple of weeks or so then one or two users will complain of missing mapped drives.

This never used to happen back on 2003.

This is a random but persistent issue and I am kinda running out of ideas.

Help!

Tracy

Scott Gorcester

You might look for Group Policy errors in the event logs. Also might be possible that the user profiles are hanging up. You may find User Profile errors in the logs as well.

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Scott Gorcester

You might consider moving away from scripts and setting printers and drive mappings in GPO's.

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pjam

Should work:
:Map name
ifmember "Security Group Name" THEN
NET USE I: /DELETE /Yes
NET USE I: \\SERVERNAME\ShareName\FolderName /persistent:yes

tracyprier

ASKER

thanks, I will look through the EV but also might look at moving to GPO for this.

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tracyprier

ASKER

cool thanks for that. looks like it might be the answer :)

Scott Gorcester

Also might suggest that when a user complains the drives are missing to go to that system, navigate to the sysvol scripts directory and run the correct login script and see if the drives map or again check for event log errors.

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tracyprier

ASKER

From what I am hearing the users find that if they log off and on again the mapped drives appear

Scott Gorcester

That a good sign!

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