Mapped drives not connecting at startup?

413x · 2 Jul 2013 at 22:08

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

bledd · 2 Jul 2013 at 22:24

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.

413x · 2 Jul 2013 at 22:35

its 7 premium 64

will that work in all OSs?

413x · 3 Jul 2013 at 00:19

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

Raumarik · 3 Jul 2013 at 09:56

Stick a delay on it or schedule it to run as a task a few minutes after start up?

Rabtech · 3 Jul 2013 at 10:04

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).

413x · 3 Jul 2013 at 18:43

Rabtech said:
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

OptimaLnrg · 3 Jul 2013 at 21:35

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.