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by jcmoffitt

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Good morning folks

This is probably an easy fix for someone. I thought I had it figured out but it is not being fixed. I have a user running a Windows XP desktop with Novell Netware redirector, Novell Zenworks etc. User logs on to Novell File/Print via novell client, also logs into AD tree via NT AD Logon. When they log on they get their drive mappings however every letter A-Z is mapping duplicate drives. I thought that going in and using the net use /remove command would permanently remove the duplicate drive mappings from that workstation. However the user called back this morning and said they are back. Any ideas how to get rid of them??

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by supertechie

If the logon script is mapping drives persistently then this will be your issue.
What you are describing looks like someone has done this in the logon script.

net use * \\server\sharename /persistent:yes

every time that user logs on, it will map the same share to the next available drive letter.

Make sure you check the machines startup folder for that user too.....I've seen people sneak logon scripts in there too to keep things mapped.

Hopefully that will give you some idea of where to start. Make sure before you do you delete all current mappings with...

net use L: /delete

subsituting L for whatever drive letters are mapped.

Hope you fix your problem

Cliff.

by jcmoffitt

Thanks for your reply. Sorry it took me this long to get back to you with a response. I will look at the logon script in her profile and see what it is doing. I agree that this has to be a logon script and the persistant:yes sounds right. I am sort of new in this environment and still feeling my way around however I will see if I can find where her logon script is coming from and track it down. I will let you know what I find out. Thanks again...

by jcmoffitt

Ok, I just looked at the logon script for this user which is calling another group script but there are no persistant drive mappings being used anywhere in that script. I just looked at her computer settings through Hyena and I do not see any logon scripts being called under documents and settings\startup group. I guess the next thing I can do is remove the logon script from her profile, do the net use delete* to get rid of all her drive mappings, have her reboot and see if they come back. Something is causing her to get recurring drive mappings. I was told that all the drive mappings in the Novell logon script was remarked out so she is not getting them from there. The mystery continues... LOL

by jcmoffitt

The user goes to lunch at 12:09 pm, locks her workstation. Comes back at 1:16 pm , logs back on to the workstation and walllla. Drives are all back again. All of them but B drive. Go figure. I checked her event viewer for some telltale entries under System and there are none. Go figure. I wonder if Novell Zenworks which they seem to be having some issues with would be pushing something to her desktop when it is idle??

by jcmoffitt

Ok, I gave up on this one. Asked the desktop folks to try replacing the NIC, disable the onboard and put a stand alone nic in machine. If that does not work just reimage it. Later

by csdept

Did anyone find a solution for this? I have a WinXP user with the same problem.

by csdept

Since I posted this question last week there is another user with the same problem.

Kent

by csdept

One fix that I will probably end up doing is to create a new local user profile. This is such a lame way of fixing a problem.

Kent

by btebow

We have a user who is having the same duplicate drive mapping issue as well. They are running Windows XP SP2.

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