December 16, 200817 yr I guess this is more of a vista question but it is related to unraid... I have a share set up on my unraid called Movies which spans several disks. from my vista based HTPC, i can always go to network, and then browse to storagetower and then the movies Share and it works fine. but i have the M drive mapped to \\storagetower\movies. and whats weird is that when i map it, it works fine. but after a reboot, the m drive stays mapped but when i click on it it says that the share is not available or disconnected. and it won't work until i disconnect the M drive and re-map it. can anyone help me out with this one?
December 17, 200817 yr Author anyone?? whats weird is when i map the M drive on another vista system in my house to the same location it works fine and always stays connected after a reboot. i dont understand what the difference is.
December 17, 200817 yr anyone?? whats weird is when i map the M drive on another vista system in my house to the same location it works fine and always stays connected after a reboot. i dont understand what the difference is. Different software and or registry entries and/or patches on the two Vista boxes? One possibility: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-network/717695.htm Last post in this thread is far more interesting... Is one of your system Vista Home version? http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-network/1078955.htm and also here: http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=1570 Joe L.
December 17, 200817 yr Author hey thanks for the reply. whats odd though is that my share is not password protected so i am not sure that any of those really apply. it shoudl nto have to remember any password because there is not one to enter.
January 5, 200917 yr Unfortunately, no. I haven't been able to figure this one out yet. I do have two machines that behave different too: On my Windows XP Media Center Edition the mapped drives are re-connected during next re-boot automatically. On my Windows XP Professional the mapped drives have to be re-mapped too. With Total Commander, my Windows Explorer replacement, I simply have to click on the drive letter - this software does re-map/re-connect automatically. The first machine is a HTPC and the second machine is a notebook. Both are SP2 and on both I used the same settings for the mapped drives. I don't think it's unRAID related - it's a Windows thing. I live with it since years ... Just my 0.02 cent. Regards Harald
January 6, 200917 yr Author you can add a batch file in your startup to remount them can you be more specific? how would i do that?
January 6, 200917 yr you can add a batch file in your startup to remount them can you be more specific? how would i do that? Hey something I know... The batch file just needs to be a single line. Something like this net use m: \\storagetower\movies Place it in the start menu startup folder, and call it something like mapdrive.bat the name is not important, but the bat at the end is. I'v actually seen this problem randomly on machines at work. This is actually a simple fix I have used many times.
January 6, 200917 yr Author awesome thanks! i can do that. but i am thinking i woudl have to disconnect the drive and then re-map it in my batch file since even though i cannot access the drive it is still mapped after the reboot. how would i disconnect the m drive in the batch file? you can add a batch file in your startup to remount them can you be more specific? how would i do that? Hey something I know... The batch file just needs to be a single line. Something like this net use m: \\storagetower\movies Place it in the start menu startup folder, and call it something like mapdrive.bat the name is not important, but the bat at the end is. I'v actually seen this problem randomly on machines at work. This is actually a simple fix I have used many times.
January 6, 200917 yr in fact yes - that exactly is what I was going to post first unmap in the batch and then remap net use m: /delete should do the job
January 6, 200917 yr Author awesome - i will give that a shot - thanks!! ok so i just added the batch file and rebooted and now i get a command prompt window that says: " C:\Windows\system32>net use m: /delete There are open files and/or incomplete directory searches pending on the connect ion to m:. Is it OK to continue disconnecting and force them closed? (Y/N) [N]:" 1) whats up with that? 2) can i add something to the script to supress this or automatically answer yes?
January 6, 200917 yr no - and it is very weird to produce this when you initially boot your machine maybe something running before this in startup USES the M drive? (a torrent client I dunno...)
January 6, 200917 yr Author no - and it is very weird to produce this when you initially boot your machine maybe something running before this in startup USES the M drive? (a torrent client I dunno...) oh that's a bummer - i have no idea what woudl be accessing it. its a bummer i cant just have the script automatically tell it to answer yes.
January 6, 200917 yr have you tried using a different drive letter? just unmap all your unraid drives, and remap them starting w/ the letter Z: I've had vista map drives to my unraid w/o any problem
January 6, 200917 yr Author havent tried different drive letter because theres lots of stuff that references letter M. was hoping to keep it as M.
January 6, 200917 yr well just create another mapped drive to the same location and have the letter be Z:...if it stays mapped correctly, it isn't a problem with unraid or vista's mapping, but maybe an application that is trying to access the drive M: as NLS suggested
January 6, 200917 yr if many things reference M: then maybe one of them tries to access M: too soon in wininternals you can probably find some tool to see what keeps M: locked and pinpoint the problem
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