Roy Vestal wrote: > ... The problem: When it tries to map this drive, it fails 8 times > before it finally is able to map the drive. This happens from ANY > network drop I have on this private network. And it is exactly 8 > failures EVERY time. I cannot manually map from the DOS diskette. I've > tried to manually do this 10 times in a row, so I have to put it in a > bat file to make it loop. ...
There were several good suggestions on this thread of possible solutions such as a WINS server, but if it hasn't been resolved, have you considered the network? Spanning tree on a managed switch will introduce behavior very much like what you're describing, because that port won't be active for a certain time after boot. It goes something like this: 1. Boot computer 2. Load OS 3. OS initializes Ethernet card driver 4. Switch notices link come up on switch port 5. Switch starts spanning tree process, blocks all traffic 6. Your loop starts trying to talk to the network 7. Switch decides ~30 seconds later that your not causing a network loop 8. Switch allows traffic through your port 9. Your loop gets to it's 8th iteration and magically starts working Just a thought, and hopefully may help other people with similar problems. :) This is a relatively common problem with systems that boot quickly on managed switches. Aaron S. Joyner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
