They're logging into their notebooks with cached credentials, then making the VPN connection, then running the batch file to map their drives. For most users, it works fine. For about 25% the drives DO map but don't show as available in My Computer until forcing a manual connection from the run line.
And for some users I've had to add the /user=username switch to the net use command to even get the drives to map at all. I'm going to take a look at this to see if it applies: http://www.mcmaster.ca/ctl/slwebclient.htm Roger Wright ___ “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” - Jack Handey On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Jon Harris<[email protected]> wrote: > Have them connect to the VPN prior to login. They should work then > depending on your address space setup. On the ASA I have the users login > first then open a tunnel and that is the result (same as yours). When we > were on the PIX I allowed the users the option to open a tunnel then login. > They seemed to really not care for the open tunnel option prior to login > option. Opening the tunnel their mapped drives always seemed to be there > without touching them when they went to get something of the network. > > Jon > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We're running with Cisco PIX firewalls and using the Cisco VPN client >> 5.0x. Users can connect but occasionally the mapped drives don't >> appear in My Computer until manually hitting them, for instance by >> forcing a connection from the Run line: N:. Once that's occurs all >> the mapped drives show in My Computer. >> >> Why would this be? >> >> >> Roger Wright >> ___ >> >> Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find >> myself loving dogs." >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
