Losing Network Drives

[dwichmann]

I am using SBS2003, i have scripts written to connect a couple of network drives when users log on to the server. I can see that the scripts run and most of the time work fine. Some days though i come in and all of the users have lost their drives. has anyone any idea why?

 

[markdmac]

Are you using persistent connections? What does your script look like? Are you using vbscript or bat files?

I have an extensive login script FAQ faq329-5798 you might benefit from.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

Check out my scripting solutions at

http://www.thespidersparlor.com/vbscript

 

[dwichmann]

thanks for the response. i will look through the FAQ

 

[bobsa32]

Its worth checking the computer browser service and server service, i have had a few problems with SBS boxes and its all been related to these two services stopping.

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

With SBS, you really should have drives mapped by the default login script that's required to run on an SBS network. The script is at \\Netlogon\sbs_login_script.bat and there's a great article on how to modify this for mapping drives here:

http://sbsurl.com/login.

I would note though, that the SBS development team considers drive mapping to be "old school" and you'll likely see a rather strong drift away from the practice. This is because shared resources are much better kept in SharePoint, and since the companyweb is pre-configured on SBS, it makes it rather simple to use.

Jeffrey B. Kane
TechSoEasy

http://www.techsoeasy.com