Red X on mapped drives after reboot 1

[brokenhalo]

Hello again guys,

This is more of an annoyance than a problem, but it still has a client of mine pissed and is completely boggling my mind.

This client has several file shares on their server. Upon boot or reboot, when you look at the drives it shows a disconnected red X. Of course, if you click on the drive, you can access it just fine... So what's the problem?

This client uses some of our software and other software such as Quickbooks, which have files on the mapped drives, and if she reboots and doesn't go into Computer and manually open the drive first to connect to it, Quickbooks will throw an error that the filke doesn't exist. It is a nuisance.

I have spent hours on the phone with Microsoft support, who is no brighter than a 3-watt light bulb. I have seen KB articles and several registry hacks to try and fix this issue, but none of them seem to work. Anyone else have this same issue that can shed some insight my way? Thanks as always!



Brad L.
Systems Engineer
Prestige Technologies
bradlaszlo[at]prestigetech.com

http://www.prestigetech.com

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

 

[linney]

Windows 7 Drive mapping question
thread1726-1597998

Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684

Mapped network drive is connected but shows as not connected

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...k/thread/4ac5ff92-863c-4921-8632-e38cbd136fb4

Could not reconnect all network drives

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...g/thread/10fcf84b-46fc-4cd7-a128-bdd4ccfe1499

 

[G0AOZ]

I had this on an XP machine a while back. Never got to the bottom of it, but made a quick fix which withstood the test of time! Small batchfile:-

net use \\computername\sharename /USER:username password

Place batchfile in Startup Group.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[eritguy]

From Windows 7 to what file server? Windows Server 2003, 2008, Novell Netware, OES, OES2?

 

[brokenhalo]

Hey guys! Thanks linney for your links - none of those gave me the solution per se, but definitely put me in the right direction. I have written a blog post about this...

http://ptihosting.com/blog/it-blog/red-x-on-mapped-drive-in-windows-7-and-windows-vista-solved

Brad L.
Systems Engineer
Prestige Technologies
bradlaszlo[at]prestigetech.com

http://www.prestigetech.com

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

 

[BadBigBen]

have a star for the solution... I may need it on a few new installs that I am overseeing...


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