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Losing connection to mapped drives

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by tprays

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Each time user starts their computer from a shutdown status, they are asked to login as usual. They get authenticated by the network and have access to everything except their mapped drives. In order to get access to the mapped drives they have to re-login. Thereafter, everything is fine as long as they do not shutdown which then starts the whole process all over again. So we have to leave their PC on all the time.

We have deleted their profile, checked cable connection, checked the NIC, move them to a different cubical, and even replaced their PC but we still get the same results. Help?

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by robo_dev

Any manually mapped drives (e.g. shortcuts) will often conflict with what's in the login script, and also any local drive letters that are the same as those in the login script will mess things up.

Check for manually-mapped drives. A workaround is to create local drive mappings with 'reconnect at login' checked. Be sure to specify the correct starting place for the root of the directory tree.

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