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Mapped Drives disconnect under certain profiles

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by robert.kent

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I have an issue where under certain profiles on one box the mapped drives disconnect from the server. Using A.D. and GPO's and it seems to happen to one group over the others. The wierd thing is they all have the same GPO applied to all the groups. Has anyone had this problem before or having this issue that can help me out?

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by lei fan

run gpupdate
then log off user
log on again to see if that works

if not use gpresult to see if the GP really applied...

by robert.kent

I do not have a GPO to Block or allow the mapped drive connection. Is the a time limit setting in GPO that I don't know about??

by lei fan

sometimes due to certain network reasons, the PCs might not grab the GPO correctly.

Are those users did not get the correct mappings located in the same area...?Such as from same hub/switch?

Use one of their user credential, go to a different machine away from that area, to see if the drive mapped correctly.

by robert.kent

I did not use GPO to map any drives. I mapped them directly and static and still drop off. Now Static mapped drives seem to stay connect longer then \\server\folder type connections. Only half of my users are really having this problem. One user is having it the most everytime he logs off and back on his mapped drives say that they are discoonected but all he has to do is click on the drives and the come back. The other users who are having this problem they have to click on the mapped drive and then go into one of the folders to get the mapped drives to stop saying disconnected. Can anyone help with this problem?

by lei fan

create a batch file
with net use command
put it in the startup folder.
you will be able to always get the mapped drives you want

by robert.kent

I need the mapped drives to stay connected during log off we run processes over night and if the users logs off and the mapped drives disconnect the process fails and we have to run the process without fail. Is there another way to prevent the drive from disconnecting?

by lei fan

I saw you had another thread in the forum with around 32 replies, I guess you already tried the solutions provided, two things maybe you could try:
1. You wanna the drive keep on no matter who log on to the machine, or even no body logon to the machine...so you are really talking a service in the background. I know windows could use a command turn exe/bat file to service, you might want to give that a try
2. Created a schedule task, make the trigger: run at machine start(Not user logon!) Then when the machine starts, the script will run even without user logon. One thing I need to point out, once a user logon and log off, the task might stop. But my point is instruct those PC users when they finish work, restart PC then leave...not that hard right?

by robert.kent

Ok That make since. But with all the changes on the computer from the other thread why does it still disconnect. And I looked at another computer that does not have the issue. And I have not change a single setting. Why do they not have the problem? and the computers in a certain gpo have the problems? And they have the same gpo applied to them.

by lei fan

There could be a lot of reasons to be honest...Besides the GPO, each computer might also got Local Policy, plus other things such as the regkey messed up...it's really really hard to tell without looking at them

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