Network drives not reconnecting after reboot when on wireless

25 Nov 2006 12:03 PM

Klaus Jensen

Hi

I have a Media Center in the bedroom, which is connected to my network
through WLAN. It all works great, good signal strength etc.

I have mapped a network drive on the Media Center to my server, where my
media-files are stored. When connected, it works great.

However - after a reboot the network drive does not reconnect as wanted, I
have to enter My Computer and then doubleclick on the disconnected network
drive - and then everything works fine again.

I have done some googling and found quite a few people with the same problem
in similar wireless scenarios - but no solution.

It seems like it is a timing-issue - so when windoes tries to reconnect the
network-drive, the connection is not fully established.

Is there something I can do to fix this? Maybe a command I could run through
the start-menu, which is run pretty late in the boot-process?

Thanks in advance

- Klaus

25 Nov 2006 8:11 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
May be this can Help.
Disable the autodisconnect timeout on the machine which offers the share
using the "net config server /autodisconnect" command from the command line.
I found this answer here in the middle of the page,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/05_1020_MCE.mspx
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Klaus Jensen" <spammers@666burninhell6.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a Media Center in the bedroom, which is connected to my network
> through WLAN. It all works great, good signal strength etc.
>
> I have mapped a network drive on the Media Center to my server, where my
> media-files are stored. When connected, it works great.
>
> However - after a reboot the network drive does not reconnect as wanted, I
> have to enter My Computer and then doubleclick on the disconnected network
> drive - and then everything works fine again.
>
> I have done some googling and found quite a few people with the same
> problem in similar wireless scenarios - but no solution.
>
> It seems like it is a timing-issue - so when windoes tries to reconnect
> the network-drive, the connection is not fully established.
>
> Is there something I can do to fix this? Maybe a command I could run
> through the start-menu, which is run pretty late in the boot-process?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> - Klaus
>

27 Nov 2006 1:20 AM

Klaus Jensen

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <J***@discussiongroup.com> wrote in message
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> Disable the autodisconnect timeout on the machine which offers the share
> using the "net config server /autodisconnect" command from the command
> line.
> I found this answer here in the middle of the page,
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/05_1020_MCE.mspx

Hi Jack. Thank you very much for trying. :)

Unfortunately, the solution specified does not work.

I did some more digging and found this page:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138365 (its on NT and Win2k, but it seems
likely to not have changed in XP)

....And ran this command on the server OFFERING the share as specified by the
Help-doc:

net config server /autodisconnect:-1

Unfortunately, when the Media center reboots (client computer), the network
drive is still disconnected.

It seems like the right solution - but unfortunately I cant make it work. :(

Other ideas?

Thanks in advance

- Klaus

27 Nov 2006 1:49 AM

Klaus Jensen

"Klaus Jensen" <spammers@666burninhell6.com> wrote in message
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> Other ideas?

I solved it myself now.

I created a bat-file, which waits for 20 seconds, and then uses NET USE to
mount the drive.

I then added this to the startup-folder of the start-menu - and it works!

So apparently it is some kind of timing issue - the wireless connection is
simply not established when windows tries to re-connect the network drive
the first time.

28 Nov 2006 12:22 AM

Tom E Jensen

Hei!
Start - Run
Eks.
"net use x: \\192.168.X.X\deltkatalog"

Høres ut som den serveren ikke er en domenekontroller og at det er p2p nett
du har. Er klient maskinen meldt inn i domenet? Sjekk om du har nettkort
eller pc som sparer strøm og slår seg av.

Bye..

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"Klaus Jensen" <spammers@666burninhell6.com> skrev i melding
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> Hi
>
> I have a Media Center in the bedroom, which is connected to my network
> through WLAN. It all works great, good signal strength etc.
>
> I have mapped a network drive on the Media Center to my server, where my
> media-files are stored. When connected, it works great.
>
> However - after a reboot the network drive does not reconnect as wanted, I
> have to enter My Computer and then doubleclick on the disconnected network
> drive - and then everything works fine again.
>
> I have done some googling and found quite a few people with the same
> problem in similar wireless scenarios - but no solution.
>
> It seems like it is a timing-issue - so when windoes tries to reconnect
> the network-drive, the connection is not fully established.
>
> Is there something I can do to fix this? Maybe a command I could run
> through the start-menu, which is run pretty late in the boot-process?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> - Klaus
>