Disconnected Network Drive

[merid]

i am trying to map a network drive befor login. to do this i am using this service. autoexnt.exe i am running this batch script:
@echo off
net use Y: \\academic\Academic password /USER:college.edu\username /PERSISTENT:NO

when i login the drive appears to be mapped but disconnected. but the name of the map is "Disconnected Network Drive( Y: )" and the state is "Disconnected Network Drive" but when i click on it, the drive opens just fine.

i'm at a loss..why is this happening?

 

[shamoo]

@echo off
net use Y: \\academic\Academic /USER:college.edu\username /PERSISTENT:NO password

close but no cigar

 

[merid]

still didnt fix the problem

 

[jjw]

MS documentation...

I don't really see anything wrong with what you have. I don't know why you are doing this before you log in. Why not put the script in your startup folder, that way it will start when you log in.

 

[merid]

because i need it for a vpn connection? (my boss told me to find out how to do it and didnt exactly give me the full explanation)

 

[jjw]

try persistant=yes...

 

[merid]

already did, i'm totally stumped. i just dont understand why it keeps displaying it as disconnected when its reallly not

 

[shamoo]

whats yout works domain name.... not the website address the domain if you right click on my computer and go to network identification it should be there.

 

[merid]

berea.edu

 

[shamoo]

use the insted of the external one.

also try the computername\localaccount see if that works

 

[knudsen]

Did you try with the IP address instead of name? Supmthin like:

[code:1:0d2f1f1772]net use Y \\192.168.1.23\Academic /USER:college.edu\username /PERSISTENT:NO password

[/code:1:0d2f1f1772]

Wild guess from a wild man. I have better luck with IPs than names on mapped drives.

 

[imro]

This is probably due to that drive being mapped under system account. We have had this same problem few days ago because we were mapping it through startup script in domain policy.