"David Beaven" <technet@ids.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:OjWRxWjBGHA.1092@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 313937 suggests using a shortcut for these type of connections. This is
not
> very convenient / clever.
>
> Is there any way of using persistent connections on machines that don't
> always see these drives e.g. laptops. Is there any setting in group
policy
> that might help?
> Otherwise persistent functionality is of no use in making adhoc shares
> (rather than by group policy) on laptops since they will slow the machine
> down when in offline mode.
> If we use /persistent:no in scripts then users that choose to make shares
> available offline will lose their easy entry point to the share when
offline
> (they would need shortcuts)
> Hope you improve this next OS!
> Thanks
> David
The problem is easily solved by placing a script into the
Startup folder, e.g. something like this:
@echo off
ping aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd -n 1 | find /i "bytes=" > nul && goto :eof
net use S: \\...
net use T: \\
Note:
- aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP address of the machine that
hosts your shares.
- Persistency must be turned off
- You can refer to a centrally stored logon script like so:
call \\YourServer\netlogon\netlogon.bat
