Wrong network share mapping

[mickrick]

OK, so I'm completely at a loss for how this is happening and its driving me nuts.

I bought a WD MyBook USB 3 external hdd to daisychain on my WD MyCloud NAS. I originally had 3 shares on the MyCloud, which were shared as O, P and Q on my netword pc's. A .bat file was placed in the Startup folder of each pc, which mapped the shares. The .bat entries were:

net use O: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\Public\E-Applications
net use P: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\Public\F-Documents_and_Photos
net use Q: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\Public\G-Movies_TV_and_Music

When I copied the data across to the MyBook, I re-assigned the shares as:

net use O: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\My_Book\Public\E-Applications
net use P: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\My_Book\Public\F-Documents_and_Photos
net use Q: /persistent:NO \\192.168.0.30\My_Book\Public\G-Movies_TV_and_Music

But when I start the pc's up, all but one assign the shares correctly. On the other pc, it still maps Q as the original share. I have tried disconnecting the share in "This PC", assigning a completely different folder as the share and then disconnecting etc. But when I leave it to be assigned by the .bat file, it always reverts to the original share.

Can someone help me out here as I just can't see how the Windows is mapping the share as anything other than what it is told to by the .bat file.

 

[thx1138v2]

Take the batch file out of the startup folder temporarily and reboot and log into the machine. Check for mapped drives in Windows Explorer for Q: drive and whether or not it is persisted.

You could also do a net use /delete on the Q: drive in the batch file before trying to map it. Put a pause in the batch file immediately after the line mapping the drive to see if it displays an error.

It could also be a permissions problem. Remember that mappings are saved per user so logging in as a different user could have different mappings. So you need to check mappings and permissions while logged in as the user that is having the problem.

 

[mickrick]

Take the batch file out of the startup folder temporarily and reboot and log into the machine. Check for mapped drives in Windows Explorer for Q: drive and whether or not it is persisted.

You could also do a net use /delete on the Q: drive in the batch file before trying to map it. Put a pause in the batch file immediately after the line mapping the drive to see if it displays an error.

It could also be a permissions problem. Remember that mappings are saved per user so logging in as a different user could have different mappings. So you need to check mappings and permissions while logged in as the user that is having the problem.