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Old Network Drive Being Mapped

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August 25, 2014 5:27:09 AM

I have only one user in a company that keeps getting their H drive mapped to the old server. The H drive should be mapped to \\newserver\data but keeps getting mapped to \\oldserver\data. I checked the logon script that maps the network drives and everything is fine there. I unsharded the old network share that the network drive was trying to map to. I deleted some old registry keys that were looking at old server network share. I deleted and recreated the users profile on the computer. I am at a loss how this network share keeps pointing to the old server. I would take the old server offline but it still does 2 things for the company.

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August 25, 2014 11:49:06 AM

1) Did you check that network user's profile itself? It might be mapped to a different logon script.
2) Check for local batch files or anything launched at start-up.
3) This might be a Client-Side-Cache issue, so you may want to check that as well.

A quick way to isolate where the problem might be is to log that user on to another machine. If they get the same network drive mapping error, then you know it's a logon script. If they don't get the mapping & thus do not get an error, then you know it's a problem on the local PC.
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August 25, 2014 12:02:51 PM

I know it is not the logon script there is only one script that is ran through GPO and that script is correct. But after about 5 to 7 reboots the correct network drives appear.
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August 25, 2014 12:35:00 PM

jeff-j said:
I know it is not the logon script there is only one script that is ran through GPO and that script is correct. But after about 5 to 7 reboots the correct network drives appear.


A network user can have a different script in their profile. Go into AD > Users > open up the properties for a user. Look at the Profile tab, and there you can see where you *could* set a different Logon Script apart from your GPO one. You can also check the same area to see if the old drive mapping is being mapped as a home folder.
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August 26, 2014 1:29:54 PM

I checked their profile tab and there is nothing at all there. I think I might of narrowed it down to a networking issue. So I replaced her cable from the computer to the wall, and from the patch panel to the switch, and also a different port on the switch.
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