Delay mounting network drive at boot?

Anonymous
2010-04-17T12:13:51+00:00

I have a network drive that I have mapped as a drive on my toshiba nb205 notebook.  It works fine with one exception, boot-up time. 

When the notebook is booted it can never connect to the mapped drive, if I manually open the drive it will then connect and be fine.

My theory is that windows is trying to connect to the drive before the network connection is established. 

Is there a way to delay mounting the network attached drive until the network establishment is complete?

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Anonymous
2010-04-17T13:17:11+00:00

Try this:

  1. Click Start, then type the three letters cmd into the Search box and press Enter.
  2. Type these commands and press Enter after each:

    net use /persistent:no

    net use * /del /yes

    notepad "%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat

  1. Type the following lines:

    @echo off

    set delay=60

    ping localhost -n %delay%

    net use E: "\SomePC\SomeShare"

  1. Save and close the file

From now on your network connection(s) will be made 60 seconds (or whatever delay you set) after you log on. You must, of course, replace "SomePC" and "SomeShare" with actual names. You also need to be careful with your typing. The commands I used will not tolerate many variations.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-02T00:14:34+00:00

    hi there something is bothering me i don't understand the letter E is which drive

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-17T19:40:50+00:00

    Hello-

    This is exactly what I need. My only question is once I save the netlogin file where does it go?

    Many thanks,

    Jason

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-02-24T17:04:51+00:00

    Pegasus,

    Is there a way to selectively attach network drives by testing to see if the computer is on a work network -- where the drive mappings are available on boot time -- and a home network -- where the drives are not available until after a VPN connection is made?

    Tony

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