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Wireless and mapped network drives

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by bhardison 1 view

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I have a test IBM Thinkpad running W2K connecting to a Linksys 802.11g Wireless Access Point that in turn connects to a Novell server as well as a W2K server. There is currently no domain just shared folders and mapped Novell folders.

The problem is the W2K Pro tries to access the mapped net drives before the wireless connection is made and fails (of course). The user must then go into Network Places and manually reconnect the mapped drives.

Any ideas on how to delay the mapping until the wireless connection is established?

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by evileyejoe

Not sure if this is what you want but you ca Make the maps persistent. That way the mapped drives will always show up even when there is no connection.

by bhardison

This is mostly the answer. It works if I set persistence to 'NO'. It's kind of a persistence problem I had. The persistent drives were trying to connect when there was no network to connect through. I now think the 'real' answer lies in WMI scripting but I haven't been learned on that yet.

Thanks for the help

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