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Mapped Network Drives show as Disconnected

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by jreed

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Hi,

This recently started happening in our network. We have a bat file that runs when the user logs in. It connects the drives(Some Times) but when they show up they show as "Disconnected" but you can still access them. I have been all over the net and I have failed to find an answer to this.

If you need anymore information please feel free to ask.

Thanks for any help.

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by maniacman

Search for posts under my alias and you'll find it.

by jreed

I can not find it any where. I look under your name and nothing. I search the forums and nothing. If you have a link or a little more information to find it would be helpful

Thanks.

by maniacman

Run regedit and go to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
MountPoint2

Under there, create a new key for the drive letter of the disconnected drive, so it appears as a subfolder under MountPoint2. You'll see other folders for things like the A, C, and other local drives.

Under that new key, create a string called BaseClass and give it a value of Drive.

Exit the registry and reboot the machine. You will now be able to disconnect that network drive once and for all. I've experienced this problem and it appears to be a bug in how Windows maps drives and the credentials it passes along. If you had a mapped persistent network drive when the machine was not joined to a domain, and then joined the machine to a domain, what happens is that it's still trying to authenticate using the old non-domain credentials, thus showing a disconnected drive. Yet, when you double click on it, you have access.

by jreed

I am not trying to disconnect the drives. There is a script that runs on everyone?s computer as they login in the morning. It should map all there drives that are associated with the script. It dose connect all of them but they show up as "Disconnected", it still lets them access the drives but just gives a letter. User as you know can't navigate through such things without names. Since it says "Disconnected" and the drive letter they think they cannot access the drive they are looking for because they don?t see it. If you can help me with this problem it would be much appreciated.

Thanks again.

by laura.mcgowin

Jree, we've had this problem in the same time frame. Would much appreciate a post here if you find resolution....

by jreed

We found a Microsoft KB article, KB843156. We just restarted the Distributed File System service on the domain controller and restarted the server. After a reboot of the pc it workes once again.

Let me know if that helps you.

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