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September 7, 2004 at 07:30 AM
jimmy

Disconnected Network Drives on XP Pro

by jimmy . Updated 18 years, 8 months ago

I am in the process of upgrading a number of workstations from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP. These are less than 1 year old computers that were purchased with XP Pro, but we wiped them and loaded 98 SE to keep everything standardized. Now we are going back and upgrading XP back onto them. The problem I am having is that most of these machines are listing the network drives that are mapped by the login script, as disconnected drives. When you click on them they show the drive contents, but some of our older software will not allow us to access information on a drive that is registering as “Disconnected Network Drive.” If I manually disconnect the drive, and manually remap it, then that one drive is fine, until the next reboot.

We have a Windows 2000 Server, SP4, running AD as our domain controller. We are also using DHCP and login scripts.

Any Ideas?

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