RE: Drive Mapping Reverting to old mappings

From: Don Eilenberger (Eilenberger_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:21:04 -0700

Dave - unfortunately - it's not as simple as that :(

The computer didn't suddenly end up with a login script (plus I looked for
one.. no dice).

And it gets odder:

1. IF I login as administrator - I can add a mapped drive to Drive G (which
is what I want to do) - or any other available drive letter.

I can reboot, restart. logout, login - and the mapping stays intect.

2. IF I login as the user - I can add a mapped drive to any drive letter
EXCEPT G. If I map a drive do drive letter E - all is well. Can
restart/reboot/logout-login - and the mapping stays intact.

BUT - if I'm logged in as the user - and map the same network share point to
Drive G - it's transient - it only stays mapped as long as the user is logged
in. If I have the user logout, restart, reboot - it looses this drive mapping
- but ONLY on the letter G.

I've go through the registry - and found all the references to the old share
point on the old server - and updated them to the new share point, or removed
them. Didn't help.

I set the user to Administrator level and tried mapping the share point to
Drive G - it still didn't work. Was still transient.

I'm pulling hair on this one. My choices are:

1. Use a different drive letter for this share point ONLY on this machine,
and set all the applications to use this drive letter.

2. FDISK and reinstall.

I've done #1 - it's not a nice solution. I will probably do #2 next week
when the user it out.

I remain baffled..

Thanks!

"Dave Hoppel" wrote:

> Check to see if there is a login script that is mapping
> the drive. If there isn't try creating a login script
> that deletes all previous mappings (net use * /delete /y)
> then map what you need.
>

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