Are mapped drives once maintained when logged off?

feenster99 · 15 Nov 2007 at 22:19

Hi all,
Say i logon to XP and map 3 network drives under my user account - if I log off, are those connections maintained? What i'm wanting to do is run a scheduled task as a user that has full access to 3 network drives, but to run it when the machine is at the logon screen. The option to run the task when logged off is no problem, but I can't figure out if/how the mapped drives are maintained.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Cheers,
Matt

katana6434 · 15 Nov 2007 at 22:40

I belive that the mapped drives will not be available until a user has logged on. If you are running task at the logon prompt, you would be better of using unc paths i.e. \\server\share.

HangTime · 15 Nov 2007 at 23:14

I can't imagine that the mapped drives would be persistent between different users, it'd be a helluva security risk otherwise.

Memphis · 16 Nov 2007 at 00:03

The drives will be disconnected as soon as the user logs off.

bledd · 16 Nov 2007 at 11:34

try the scheduled task, but supply the credentials for the user, as said above, unc path might be more successful

feenster99 · 16 Nov 2007 at 12:44

Only problem with the UNC path thing, is that I'm using a particular bit of software that can only draw data from named drives. I'll investigate a bit further though. I assumed that if i mapped drives as UserA, and set the scheduled task to run as UserA, and run when logged off, it would use their permissions.

Matt

bledd · 16 Nov 2007 at 13:11

i 'think' it should work ok, do a test first!