All letters of the alphabet are mapped to a network drive

[alex0628]

I have a user who, when going to My Computer or Windows Explorer, shows every letter of the alphabet mapped to the same network folder. The only mapped drive that actually allows access though is the actual mapped drive in his login script. And Network Neighborhood reflects the correct mappings. All the incorrect drive letters are X'd out as not connected, and if I click on Disconnect, I get a message that the network location can not be found. So I can't clear the drive letters that way. How did this user get so managed erroneous mapped network drives?

 

[itsp1965]

Try using NET USE /DEL from the command prompt. Is it possible that the logon script for this user has a net use * \\sharename /persistent:yes. This sounds like a possible reason why all the drive letters have been assigned

 

[alex0628]

None of the net use commands in the login script have 'persistent' after them. I tried net use /delete. I get a "network connection could not be found" message. I shut down completely, re-booted, still the same. I can't find anything in the registry that is causing the problem. They won't go away!!!

 

[h5n1]

/persistent:yes should not cause that since it will just give you an error instead of using another new drive letter for it....more like a corrupted profile to me....

SET CRTL ALT DEL = #728
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greg

 

[Roeee]

I have seen this occur on a couple of occasions, during which the cause was a third party app. For some reason the app was trying to connect to a location which didnt exist, it retried for every available letter then gave up. Each drive was subsequently unavailable as they didnt really exist. Yo ucouldnt disconnect because the drive mapping didnt really exist.

This was some time ago and the application I believe was 16-bit and not designed for a networked environment and / or windows 98 and below....

...Sorry I cant be of more use.