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Why do I have to re-map my network drive so often at work? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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It’s constantly becoming unmapped (sometimes randomly in the middle of the day). File explorer pages close out by themselves somewhat frequently too. Just curious what might be going on in IT (they’re the ones who showed me how to re-map).

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[–] jesterraiin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's either an attack on your IT infrastructure, updates breaking something, or your IT doing some ~~suspicious~~ bold things.

Either way, create (if you didn't already) a *.BAT file on your desktop containing these lines:

net use * /delete

net use letterofmappeddrive: \\pathtothesharedplace /persistent:Yes

repeat the last line for each mapped drive and run the script every time something weird happens. You can also schedule it to run every an hour or so, until your IT provides a lasting solution to the problem.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could also be a misconfigured GPO that is blowing away the mappings. Or a script that is defined in the GPO. GPOs are usually scheduled to run every 90 minutes with up to a 15 minute variance in either direction. That would cause it to keep breaking throughout the day. The script above would get you fixed but until the root cause is discovered you'd have to keep running it.

[–] jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It could also be

It can be great many deal of things swept under "IT doing something bold" rug. 😜

The script above would get you fixed but until the root cause is discovered you’d have to keep running it.

Yes, that's what I wrote in the comment.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent, this script is simple enough for me to understand what it’s doing and will improve my workflow:)