Network Shares with WHS2011 - a small problem

spudbynight · 1 Feb 2012 at 10:21

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a small issue I have.

I have some shared folders on my network which are mapped as network drives.

I have a microserver running WHS2011. When I reboot a machine now it won't automatically connect to the network shares.

Before I used to share stuff on my HTPC and my main PC. It would automatically connect to each network drive. Now, since the homeserver has been added to the network it won't do that. I have to drill down into each drive using the Windows file explorer before it realises it is there.

Is there some easy fix for this?

Spooter · 1 Feb 2012 at 10:28

Try using the net use command.

net use z: /persistent:yes \\servername\share /u:domainaccount password

spudbynight · 1 Feb 2012 at 10:43

Thanks - I will try that later

spudbynight · 2 Feb 2012 at 16:13

OK - tried that and I got an error

I entered in the following :

C:\Users\James>net use z: /persistent:yes \\Microserver\share /u:James

and got this :

System error 85 has occurred.

The local device name is already in use.