Wandering Laptop Users

[teknovision]

Hi all!!

Whenever a user disconnects (by taking their laptop into a meeting) him/herself from the network and return their access to the network drives is no longer however, they are still able to use the internet (SBS2003 acts as DHCP & DNS).

In order to have access to the network drives once again they have to log-off and log-on again, rather inconvenient, any ideas on how I can fix this?

Many many many thanks for your help!!

Phil

 

[jfrantz]

Phil,

What about creating a batch file to re-connect the network drives? You could place a shortcut on the users's desktop for them to launch when they return to their desk. You could even have them re-run the logon script. It may take modifying the logon script. Something like:

if not exist g: net use g: \\server\share /persistent:no

Maybe have the logon script set an enivronment variable so that you can determine if it has already been run so you can skip over some items. For instance, I have my logon script write certain changes to the user's registry and home directory. It may not be necessary to re-write those changes so I would insert this near the beginning of the script:

if "%ScriptRan%"=="Yes" goto MapDrives

and this at the end:

set ScriptRan=Yes

Hope that helps!

-Jeff