If your problem is only with home drives then this will likely be because the users are logging on (not unlocking) outside of your network. Drive Mappings configured via GPO or as in your case manually will persist when configured to - even if there is no network to pull the policies on logon. However, home drive mappings configured in the user profiles don't. They are only created when logging on while on the network.
Regards, Freddy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Standley Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2016 6:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Drive mappings disappearing Check event logs perhaps it will shed some light on the issue. Also take a look in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network If the drives are set to use persistence then they will show up in this registry location. Eg, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network\Z But if persistence is not enabled you will not see the drive listed. http://sysadminslibrary.blogspot.com/2013/02/mapped-network-drives-in-windows-7.html +1 on using GPOs to assign mapped drives: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2009/01/07/using-group-policy-preferences-to-map-drives-based-on-group-membership/ Neil From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:05 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Drive mappings disappearing Windows 7 64 bit. The affected drive is not present. There is no way it will recover on its own. Its all manually mapped. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Standley Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:31 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Drive mappings disappearing What is the client OS? When you go in to computer and check the mapped drive, is it still present or has it completely disappeared? Is there any scenario that the mapped drive will recover? IE, user logoff/logon, or rebooting the laptop. Neil From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:06 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Drive mappings disappearing I'm going to reply to all the responses here, starting with this one: One is mapped by the home drive of the user profile. The other two are manual drive mappings set to reconnect. No VMware is involved. I get requests about broken links when users are on and off the network. No certainty of when the mapped drive actually disappears. UNC path will work. Offline files are not enabled No media readers. Using Lenovo T450S laptops. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 11:06 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Drive mappings disappearing How are the drives mapped? Group Policy Preferences? If they are, there should be an event logged indicating why the mapping failed. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: 13 July 2016 18:45 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Drive mappings disappearing Randomly I get certain users who call saying their network drive mapping shortcuts don't work from their desktop. When checking the network drive mappings, the mapping itself seems to be been deleted. Once we manually remap the drive, the shortcut works again. Any idea why/how the drive mappings get removed? I have no idea what could cause this and the users are starting to get annoyed. * There are no logon or logoff scripts on the domain * The users are on laptops and often take their laptops off the network * There are 3 drive mappings. One of them is mapped by the home drive property from AD. Usually only one is missing at any given time. * The users definitely didn't delete the mappings Thanks, Jimmy NOTICE: This email is confidential. If you are not the nominated recipient, please immediately delete this email, destroy all copies and inform the sender. Australian Maritime Systems Ltd. (AMS) prohibits the unauthorised copying or distribution of this email. This email does not necessarily express the views of AMS. AMS does not warrant nor guarantee that this email communication is free from errors, virus, interception or interference.
