Mapped drives not connecting at startup?

Caporegime
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Got an annoying issue

I have mapped some network drives on my HTPC but they do not connect automatically.

this means that launching WMC and looking for films on server yields a blank until i manually click on a drive in explorer window.

how to i get around this?

issue is not present on wifi laptop
 
What OS is it?

I know with XP home it wouldn't auto-connect them up.

The way around it is to add this script to startup..


net use X: /d
net use X: \\server\share


-So on each boot it will unmap the map, then re-create it.
 
This works but not always, sometimes all drives are missed, sometimes it misses the first etc

it seems to be running before network communication is availible
 
Add the name of the machine, then the username/password for the share into Credential Manager in Control Panel.

I used to have similar problems, however the above fixed it and all shared drives are available at startup (showing free space etc).
 
Add the name of the machine, then the username/password for the share into Credential Manager in Control Panel.

I used to have similar problems, however the above fixed it and all shared drives are available at startup (showing free space etc).

I have added a delay and it seems to be working ok now.

i will try the above as it seems a bit neater
 
I had this with 2 of the laptops in my house.

I put it down to wifi generally being the devil / wifi enabled too slow at startup.

the credentials thing above helps alleviate it.
 
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