Win2K Wireless Network Mapped Drives

[Gwendri]

Our office has just upgraded from Win98 to Win2K Pro. We are having a problem with our mapped drives.

We have 9 Win2K Pro machines. 8 of them are for Users and 1 is basically a File server. We have mapped drives on each of the User machines to the file server. Every time each of the user machines are restarted they get this error.

Restoring Network Connections

An error occured while reconnecting G: to \\XXX

Microsoft Windows Network: The Network path was not found.

Do not show this error message again.
Do not try to restore the connection in the future.

This connection has not been restored.

If the user chooses Do not show this error message again and Ok the drives are mapped; just not active.

I'm wondering if this is because of the disconnect settings on the file server machine (red X on the drives) and the User machines can't access the drives (because red X) when they boot (file server is always on) or if it is because of the Wireless network running slow and OS is trying to reconnect the drives before it recognizes the network.

This is a hassle because some employees are somewhat computer illiterate and we have to boot their machines or remap their drives every day for them.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I can supply any extra info needed.

Gwendri

[DVNT1]

...I'm wondering if this is because of the disconnect settings on the file server machine (red X on the drives)...

I'm pretty sure this would not be the reason. I've seen something similar with a W2K client mapped to an NT server (which deosn't do the "red x"/disconnect).

I would think it is a security/credential issue but I'm sure. I haven't tried fixing it in my situation (only two people who access the NT box so it is low priority in my case).

After the holidays I'll look into the problem, hopefully you find a fix first though.

btw, Welcome to TechIMO!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Welcome to TechIMO!!

If the drive on the file server is "shared", then I would think that it would be the wireless connection.

After the machines are fully booted can the mapped drive connection be restored without any difficulties and without any settings on the file server being changed?

If so then that would also point at the wireless.

If file server settings have to be changed then that would (I think) point to the server.

Are these restarts in the morning at the start of work?

If you restore the mapped drive and then immediately restart does the problem replicate itself?

Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

Hello ...................?

Bill