Re: Mapped Drives/Slow Network

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From: Mannyg (Mannyg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:05:01 -0700

"Bob Willard" wrote:

> Mannyg wrote:
> > We are currently in the middle of upgrading our windows 98 Machines with Dell XP pro machines, we have upgraded about 7 users so far and have ran into several problems. One of the problems I have noticed is that when I map a drive to a shared folder on NT and I restart the computer for some reason XP says it cannot connect the network drive and the drive has a red X through it, but if you click on the drive it opens fine and the X goes away this happens everytime you restart the machines. Second problem is network applications and shared folders, it seems that users have to wait from anywhere from 1-3 minutes before they are able to open a shared folder on the servers and before the (not responding) sign goes away.
> >
> > Why is XP doing this? Windows 98 is still doing very well and does not have this problem. Is there a way to fix this?
>
> To cure the drive mapping problem, try this: create a .BAT file
> on the client PC(s), containing a NET USE command for each mapped
> drive; then, create a link to that .BAT file in the Startup folder
> to invoke the .BAT file when the client reboots.
>
> You must tailor the NET USE commands to your network and your
> tastes, but a sample would look like:
>
> Net use P: \\PC-P\ShareP /persistent:yes
> Net use Q: \\PC-Q\ShareQ /persistent:yes PasswordQ
> Net use R: \\PC-R\ShareR$ /persistent:yes /user:Stupid PasswordStupid
> Pause
> Exit
>
> The Pause command allows the user to see if the NET USE commands all
> worked; network problems and host reboots sometimes prevent NET USE
> from working. If the user is too naive to recover from such problems,
> omit the Pause command.
>
> {And, if your organization is PC, substitute PHB for Stupid. <g>}
> --
> Cheers, Bob
>
>
Bob,

Thank you I will try that, do you have any Idea why networking is slow to react when browsing folders on remote servers.

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