Comments on: Map a Network Drive using Windows 7, Vista or Windows Server 2008 [How-To]

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:37:14 +0000

Okay I tried net use and it didn’t work it says system error 67 has occured??

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:20:02 +0000

That should only happen if you already have something mapped to the F drive. To check, open Explorer (Hotkey Windows Key + E) and look for an F drive OR, open command line and type Net Use

If that fixes it for ya perfect otherwise post your follow-up in our Forum ( http://www.groovypost.com/forum/ ) as about a dozen ppl will help me answer your question and it’s a bit easier to troubleshoot issues there than fill up comments here.

Thanks!

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:17:17 +0000

When mapping to our server windows 7 is not allowing me to map to drive F: is there a reason for this? please advise

Thanks

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:49:09 +0000

@Andy,
Great question. My first answer would be to just Reboot and see what happens. If they are still there then they are Persistent. Another idea if you don’t want to reboot a cluster node is to just delete the drive mapping then map the drives again using the persistent switch.

Let me know here or in the forum (http://www.groovypost.com/forum/ if you find a better answer!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:07:28 +0000

Nice. How can you tell if your drives are mapped Persistent in Windows server 2003? I am getting ready to do a migration from a windows 2003 server cluster to a windows 2003 server on a VM.

Thanks
Andy

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:35:39 +0000

@Wes – Hi Wes, sorry but it looks like I missed your comment. My recommendation is to post questions in our forum – http://www.groovypost.com/forum/. Our forum is designed for question and there’s many more people watching and answering questions as they come in.

In regards to your question, I’ve had no issues connecting to DFS shares from my Server 2008 boxes. Plz post your exact problem in our Forum.

@Abu – Mapping a network drive allows you to access windows shares (data) which reside on different servers.

By: Abu

Abu — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:57:45 +0000

Could you give me the reason what is the use of mapping a network drive?

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:59:57 +0000

Yes… Net Use hasn’t really changed much over the years, but what about using a DFS namespace as the share instead of the server name. Currently we have scripts that use Net Use on W2K3 boxes that map drives to a \\domain\data\share\, but I can’t seem to get that to work on a W2K8 box.

Anyone got an idea?

By: craig

craig — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:44:49 +0000

MrGroove: Unfortunately, I had already tried what you suggested in the first part, namely “Reconnect at Logon” and the Connect using a different user along with the correct username & pw. It almost got me there except the next time I logged on, the mapped drive still failed – retained the correct domain name and user but still promted for a pw.

I did not try the second half of your suggestion (the last ditch effort) but I did use your command line example along with another thread I found that works all of the time. The link on the how to is http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpplogs.html

Since this approach activates on each logon, I did not need to use your persistent option, but did of course need to use your user name and pw command line example.

My little batch file used in conjunction with the above referenced tutorial consists of one line:
net use P: \\MACHINENAME\FOLDERNAME\SUBFOLDERNAME /user:DOMAINNAME\username pw

The process described in the tutorial along with this batch/script file creates a P: drive on the Windows 2008 server whenever the XP box has a user who is setup to run the script. The XP box does not logon to the actual domain. The shared script folder doesn’t even have to reside on the C drive, so there must be something special about the “netlogon” share name within the Windows environment that I don’t grasp. But it does work each and every time.

Your Last Ditch Effort also seems logical. That’s the joy of Windows – only 30 million different ways to accomplish a task.

Thanks for the examples on how to get things done via the command line.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:10:59 +0000

Ah. Well, I actually don’t have an XP box that’s not domain attached so I cant test this but, what I would try next is:

Check the box, “Reconnect at logon”. Then, under that box Click the Text: “Connect using a different User name”. Enter in the credentials and PW and hopefully that does the trick.

If not, then try this LAST DITCH EFFORT. Go into Control panel, User Accounts, Advanced Tab, Manage Passwords. Click Add and enter in the Server and User & PW. This should use these credentials anytime you connect to resources from that server.
Let me know
-MrGroove