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by joe 2 views

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I was asked to look at one network recently, and came across a strange problem. Upon login, the login script maps network drives (H, S, X). However on all workstations (windows 98, ans there arent many) it seems that as soon as they are connected windows 98 disconnects them. I think this might be related to the fact that they used to map drives with a "Reconnect on logon" checkmark, but I deleted the registry entry for that, and although new drives are no longer connected, existing ones are still disconnected. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks

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by msteffan

Just a shot in the dark but - you said the script maps the drives. Does windows have any local mappings as well that try to map the sane drives?

We have people in my orginization that map via script to both Novell and NT servers, as well as have local mappings on the PC -- gets a little hairy sometimes.

Way to check this - if possible, cancel out of the logon script - go to windows - my computer. If you see any network drives listed - then they are mapped locally - delete those drives and see what happens.

by joe

Not the answer I am looking for, this has also been tried. Thanks anyway.

by craig haunch

In config.sys on the workstations have you got a lastdrive=z statement, if not add this in and see if that helps. Also is it NT or netware, if netware try this:
In Control Panel, double-click Network. In the Primary Network Logon box, click Client for NetWare Networks, then reboot.

by joe

here is the script that admin users have:
@echo off
net time \\www /set /yes
net use * /d /y
net use h: /home
net use l: \\www\logon$
net use o: \\www\apps$
net use s: \\www\shared
net use u: \\www\home$
net use w: \\www\web$
net use x: \\www\data
if exist c:\windows\*.pwl del c:\windows\*.pwl
if exist c:\windows\*.acl del c:\windows\*.acl

everything's simple, they have a very small network

The lastdrive is Z, the network is NT.
server is NT Server 4.0 sp6
workstations are mostly 98FE (a few SEs)
MSKB wasnt of much help on this

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