Scripting Mapped drives

Hi all

I currently run a w2k3 domain and have a logon script mapping drives through
group membership. occasionally laptop users and some desktop users loose
there mapped drives at which point they call and we tell them to relogon.

laptop users sometimes come back into the office after using there laptop at
home and instead of shutting down put it into standby or hibernate then wjen
they boot in the office they dont logon and dont map drives.

Anyone else have or have a similar problem, any solutions?

I was thinking of putting a timer into the script to remap drives every so
often or installing some scripts locally not sure.

thanks

Manny
Fri Mar 07 16:49:01 CST 2008

Thats what we tell them now, i was wondering if anyone else had found a work
around or a better way. User will sometimes get testy and inist the shutdown
before they putting the dock into the dock but everytime we tell them to
logoff and back on the drives reappear. i do have a problem with a couple of
user where they loose the drive mappings but im guessing the just need a
reimage to there systems.

thanks

"Corey Thomas - MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA" wrote:

> Hey Manny,
>
> We usually tell these users to log out and back into the domain so that the
> login script runs. However, you could create a link to the script and deploy
> it to their desktops. Then you could instruct them to run the script there.
>
> -Corey Thomas
> MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA
>
> "Manny" wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I currently run a w2k3 domain and have a logon script mapping drives through
> > group membership. occasionally laptop users and some desktop users loose
> > there mapped drives at which point they call and we tell them to relogon.
> >
> > laptop users sometimes come back into the office after using there laptop at
> > home and instead of shutting down put it into standby or hibernate then wjen
> > they boot in the office they dont logon and dont map drives.
> >
> > Anyone else have or have a similar problem, any solutions?
> >
> > I was thinking of putting a timer into the script to remap drives every so
> > often or installing some scripts locally not sure.
> >
> > thanks
> >

CoreyThomasMCSEMCSAMCDBA
Fri Mar 07 17:00:34 CST 2008

Lost drive mappings could be a number of things.

1. They could be experiencing network connectivity issues.
2. They could have an interferring device. For example, a USB drive may be
using a drive letter and causing a drive not to map.

Our login script checks the drive letter being requested and the device on
that letter. If they don't match, it disconnects and reconnects. You could
set a scheduled task that runs a script to map the drives, but then it would
be running at their home location frequently.

It's best that the users log onto the network each day for security reasons
anyway.

-Corey

"Manny" wrote:

> Thats what we tell them now, i was wondering if anyone else had found a work
> around or a better way. User will sometimes get testy and inist the shutdown
> before they putting the dock into the dock but everytime we tell them to
> logoff and back on the drives reappear. i do have a problem with a couple of
> user where they loose the drive mappings but im guessing the just need a
> reimage to there systems.
>
> thanks
>
> "Corey Thomas - MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA" wrote:
>
> > Hey Manny,
> >
> > We usually tell these users to log out and back into the domain so that the
> > login script runs. However, you could create a link to the script and deploy
> > it to their desktops. Then you could instruct them to run the script there.
> >
> > -Corey Thomas
> > MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA
> >
> > "Manny" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I currently run a w2k3 domain and have a logon script mapping drives through
> > > group membership. occasionally laptop users and some desktop users loose
> > > there mapped drives at which point they call and we tell them to relogon.
> > >
> > > laptop users sometimes come back into the office after using there laptop at
> > > home and instead of shutting down put it into standby or hibernate then wjen
> > > they boot in the office they dont logon and dont map drives.
> > >
> > > Anyone else have or have a similar problem, any solutions?
> > >
> > > I was thinking of putting a timer into the script to remap drives every so
> > > often or installing some scripts locally not sure.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >

Corey
Fri Mar 07 15:47:00 CST 2008

Hey Manny,

We usually tell these users to log out and back into the domain so that the
login script runs. However, you could create a link to the script and deploy
it to their desktops. Then you could instruct them to run the script there.

-Corey Thomas
MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA

"Manny" wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I currently run a w2k3 domain and have a logon script mapping drives through
> group membership. occasionally laptop users and some desktop users loose
> there mapped drives at which point they call and we tell them to relogon.
>
> laptop users sometimes come back into the office after using there laptop at
> home and instead of shutting down put it into standby or hibernate then wjen
> they boot in the office they dont logon and dont map drives.
>
> Anyone else have or have a similar problem, any solutions?
>
> I was thinking of putting a timer into the script to remap drives every so
> often or installing some scripts locally not sure.
>
> thanks
>