drive mapping passwords etc

[philea]

we have a server in the DMZ which we are able to map a network drive to as long as we provide the correct u/n password. The drive is mapped okay within explorer but only for one users session, and is intermitently dropped. Our main problem is that we have an application which requires this drive to be mapped permanently. When the server reboots or more worrying, intermitently the connection is lost and we then have to manually reconnect the mapped drive.
My question is, is there a setting on windows server where by we may keep this drive mapping enabled so that the application does not keep stopping? Or perhaps any others have experienced this 'dropping' of connection?

 

[Bordetas]

May be you could try to create a users that matches same username and password with the map drive that you are using, or using a logon script with the command net use.


Bordetas: MCSA/MCSE Security (only on paper) ;-P

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[Seumas13]

Have you considered a Login Script?

And I would agree with the suggestion that you create a user on both systems with the same name and password, then have the service start using that username and password.

When it wants to access the remote share, it will use "pass-through authentication" and simply connect.

Another thing to consider is whether you can configure the application to use a URL (\\servername\share) instead of a drive letter. That way as long as the Username and Password match, it would work.

And, yet another approach is to schedule a script to run periodically (once an hour?) which maps the drive.

Good Luck!
Seumas