| [2K3] Mapping network drives After you VPN into network Our network enviornment is Windows 2003 active directory.
Currently users who work remotely from home are not getting their network drives mappings on their laptop which is Windows XP professional, as they would normally get when they are in the office network.
1.User logs into their laptop at home
2. Manually loads the vpn client
3. The drive script does not mapp drives
How can I map the drives ??? |
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 JahntassaWhat, I can have feathersPremium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
kudos:4 | said by JDmailNY:3. The drive script does not mapp drives Start with why the script isn't mapping the drives. Probably something in the event viewer. |
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My money says it's a name resolution issue. Try using a test script that replaces the host/NetBIOS name(s) with their IP addresses and see if that works. |
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 brianmcdPremium
join:2000-09-06
Norristown, PA | reply to JDmailNY
Since the user has already logged onto XP (Local) before establishing the VPN Connection the logon script may not be running. Is there an option in the VPN Software to allow it to start BEFORE the XP OS Logon. This way the user can establish a VPN Connection to your network, have their logon credentials validated by the network, and have the network drives mapped. |
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 ArchivisYour DaddyPremium
join:2001-11-26
Earth
kudos:18 | said by brianmcd:Since the user has already logged onto XP (Local) before establishing the VPN Connection the logon script may not be running. Is there an option in the VPN Software to allow it to start BEFORE the XP OS Logon. This way the user can establish a VPN Connection to your network, have their logon credentials validated by the network, and have the network drives mapped. This is the winner right here. Map drive scripts will fail because they run before the VPN connection started.
Your script probably has something like this in it.
net use l: /d 1>nul 2>nul
net use l: \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME$ /persistent:no
Wipe the share name out, recreate it. This is so the scripts can properly be maintained if something changes.
Servername will not resolve until a VPN connection is established. You can either have the VPN connection software set to run on login or have the login script sitting on the user's desktop to run manually after they establish a connection.
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