Re: Mapped drives in clients lost when server down

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First : A server is not suspected to go down regular ....

If I understand the situation, the network-drives are not on the server, but
on other clients.

What you can try, is mapping this drives using a small batch-file (Net Use
[driveletter] [networkpath ex. \\computername\share]), and let this batch
run at every logon on a client computer. This can be done using a shortcut
to this batch in the startup-folder, or by using sheduled tasks.

(A batch-file you can create in Notepad, and save it with extension *.bat)

Hope this was helpfull.



"Augie" <Augie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:23B691BA-4788-4292-980E-C4625FB12D60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am fairly new to Windows Server and, as I have not got any formal
>training,
> run into minor problems from time to time.
> Now I have a small network, one 2003 SP1 server, with Acitive directory
> and
> DNS only, and 10 XP SP2 clients connected. The clients have network drives
> mapped to the other client's disks. This works fine as long as the server
> is
> on, but all network drives in the clients are lost if the server goes
> down.
> In this process application the server is only used to host a SQL server
> and
> make maintaining of user rights and desktops easier in the clients. It can
> be
> down without causing any bigger harm as long as the clients can log in and
> use the mapped drives. But the clients (or at least any 3 of them at any
> time) must work, and be able to access each other, no matter if the
> server
> is on or not.
> The whole network is isolated from the outer world, no plant network or
> internet is needed. I have tried to minimize the the security so far,
> everything is allowed.
> What could I do to make the network drives work in all situations?
>
> Regards
>


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