These should be mapped by GPO. It just seems like something is keeping it from being persistent.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] mapped drive madness Could it possibly be a mixup of mapping the drives from normal and/or elevated permissioned windows? As crazy as it sounds, I've seen weird behavior like that when there is a mixed consistency of mappings on x64 systems. AFAICT, its usually born of mapping drives from the command prompt. To clear it, I have to go through and remove the mappings from both normal and elevated CMD windows. I have not been able to intentionally replicate the issue consistently, but I've encountered it enough times for it to be in my thought process. -- Espi On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I’m trying to solve a weird issue on one laptop for a client. There are several drives mapped using GPO on a 2008r2 domain. As expected, most laptops show a red x over mapped drives when off the company network. They enable VPN and then have access. I have one system (win7 64 bit) that when the user logs in away from corporate network, the mapped drives do not appear. I tried running gpupdate /force after enabling VPN without success ...but understand that probably wouldn’t work anyway because drive maps in GPO typically only happen at logon. I tried creating a bat file to net use the drive mappings so that the user could run this after turning on the vpn. This fails with an already in use error. Because of the error, I went to look at the screen where you manually map a drive. And the error is correct. All of the drive letters we use show as mapped to the correct UNC path. But the mapped drives do not show up in explorer and explorer doesn’t recognize the drive letters as valid location if you enter the drive letter in the address bar. Anyone have any insight as to why this laptop hates me? Thanks. Bill
