Scripted mapped drives - invisible 1

[baronne]

Hi,

I have a strange problem that seems to be occuring more so on Windows XP machines. I have an oldish kix script that maps drives on Windows 2000 servers. However on Windows XP, after logging in, the drive mappings don't appear to be there, but if you go ahead and try to map them manually, they actually do appear to be listed as mapped drives. Very odd... has anyone heard of or seen this?

Regards,

Baronne

 

[bcastner]

To disable this "feature", open the MMC and add the group policy snap-in. Under Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->System-->Logon, change "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to ENABLED.

This can be fed to clients via a group policy from a Windows 2000 server by upgrading the standard policy template with the XP policy template. Since this is an XP only command, non-XP systems will ignore it in a domain distributed group policy.

It helps as well to use the "/Persistant:no" parameter on the net use commandline in your scripts. The default is "Yes", and this can lead to conflicts if you try to remap in a script.