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Shortcut to network drive.

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by webwoef Feb 18, 2003 last reply Mar 21, 2003

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Hoi,

I map a network drive //computername/share in win xp pro.
I give no user name and pswd. It uses the windows users and pasword.

Then I make a shortcut (right mouse button / create shortcut).
When I click on the shortcut, the drives opens, as it should.

Now the problem :

When I log of (or reboot) and log on as the same user as before,
The shortcut is marked with a question mark and when I click on it,
There is an error "not found".

I already tried to give a username and pasword but nothing works.

Anybody ideas ?

Thank you,

Wim.

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by jdeboer Feb 18, 2003

A quick easy fix would be to map the drive a different way. Right click on My Computer and select Map Network Drive...select the letter and path...make sure the 'Reconnect at logion' check box is checked and click finish. Next, you can double-click on My Computer, right click on the mapped drive, and select create shortcut. It will tell you it cannot create the shortcut here, select yes and it will put the shortcut on the desktop (if you want it there).

by webwoef Feb 18, 2003

Sorry, we cannot do "reconnect at logon" because they are portables and sometimes not connected to the lan and other times they are. We can make the shortcut but after logoff, reboot. The source is no more available.

by beermonster Feb 19, 2003

Hi,
I bet if you look at the proerties of the shortcut you'll see that it refers to the drive letter and not the unc path (\\servername etc). As the drive is mapped when you create the shortcut, of course the shortcut works. When you log out andlog back in again the drive is no longer mapped, so the shortcut does'nt work. Try puuting the net use command into a batch file, and having a shortcut to the batch file on teh desktop, that way the user can map the drive as and when they need to byclicking on the bat file.