Reconnecting network drive on wireless connection

[paskuda]

Hi,

We're having a painful problem here. There is a network drive on the workstation mapped to a share on a server, say, \\server\myShare. The connection between workstation and server is wireless - workstation connects to a Linksys AP. The drive is set to reconnect after windows restart.

The problem is that Windows tries to reconnect the drive before wireless connection is established. Of course it fails, and when the connection is established the drive is still disconnected. Is it possible to force some delay of network drive reconnection? Or maybe it is possible to configure windows to retry after some time when reconnecting fails?

Unfortunately I can not ask users just to start explorer and double click the drive, the solution has to be fully automated. It's also not possible to add a startup script which would execute "net use". Any ideas here? I'm getting a headache already ...

Thank you for any help,
Michal

 

[linney]

Can you do anything with this GPO?

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\ Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon

Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization feature

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293

 

[Leozack]

If there is a program taht requires it, then chances are they're running a shortcut to run that program. You can therefore replace this shortcut with one of your own creation which runs any tasks that need to be carried out, such as a batch script that checks the drive assignment or deletes it then readds it then runs the program. Give it a shortcut and set the icon to the program icon and noone will really notice

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[gbaughma]

If you're running AD, you could have the network drive mapping in an AD script, which wouldn't run until you're logged in (and obviously wireless would be working and up at that point).

Otherwise, a shortcut on the desktop to a BAT file:

NET USE {drive letter}: \\server\share /Y



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[lhuegele]

Sounds to me like you still see the drive when you explore my computer, but it's status just says "disconnected". Is this the case?