Re: Force mapped drive not to connect at startup on Windows XP by V
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Sat May 17 11:01:44 PDT 2008
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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> V Green <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote:
> > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> > <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in
> > message news:OfKEZMCuIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> ryanmhuc@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>> I have a mapped drive on my laptop which can only be used when i am
> >>> connected to a VPN. On logging in it attempts to logon or connect to
> >>> the mapped drive and the login hangs for upto 60 additional seconds.
> >>> Is it possible to force the mapped drive not to logon until i
> >>> actually attempt to use the mapped drive? This way i can have a
> >>> fast login?
> >>
> >> I'd get rid of the persistent mapped drive in Windows, and create a
> >> batch file login script to launch when you want to use the VPN
> >> connection.
> >>
> >> net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no
> >>
> >> ...should be simple enough. You could also begin with
> >>
> >> net use * /del /yes
> >
> > And be aware that if you've mapped a network LPTx port that
> > will get deleted too...
>
> Yes, this is true. It's also a pretty rare situation to encounter nowadays,
> but thanks for mentioning it.
>
> Login scripts should do all mapping, in my opinion.
Yeah, there didn't used to be much of it, but there's been a
resurgence lately as a solution to Vista's problems printing
over networks...
(this is an XP group, but anyway...)
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