I have logon .bat scripts that run at startup on XP Pro clients connecting to Server2003 that map shares to the local PCs. I have some clients that after a period of inactivity will lose their connection to the shares on the server. Then they will not be able to connect when they try to open the share from ‘My Computer’. It just locks up the computer for a minute and they get an error saying the connection cannot be restored.
One user even had the shares disappear completely from ‘My Computer’ altogether. The .bat script is a basic script –
@echo off
net use P: \\Server\Share
I’ve tried to use ‘/persistent:yes’ as well, but still doesn’t seem to help.
Any ideas on how I can keep these shares connected?
I’ve been also trying to find out how I can map a share on a MAC file server that requires a password – it’s part of a separate workgroup and not part of the domain. Nothing I’ve tried seems to work on that. Any suggestions here would be great as well.
Thanks! TC