Re: [Wrapper-user] Question about W2k and network drives

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

I visit that customer on Monday and will give that a try.
Thanks.
Leif

Earnie Dyke wrote:

>Have you tried refering to the "drive" as a URI rather than a dos drive?
>
>Earnie!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leif Mortenson [mailto:le...@ta...]
>Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:56 AM
>To: Wrapper User List
>Subject: [Wrapper-user] Question about W2k and network drives
>
>
>I am using the Wrapper at one of my customer sites and have run into a
>problem when the system is rebooted.
>
>The Java application makes use of resources stored on a network drive
>mapped to drive K: To accomplish this, a user account was created which
>has the drive mapped and configured to reestablish the mapping
>automatically.
>
>If I reboot the machine and log in as that user, the drive is mapped
>correctly without having to enter any passwords or anything.
>
>The problem is that if I install a service using that user and then reboot
>the machine, the application fails on startup because drive K is not found.
>Even if I place a long delay in the startup, the drive will never be mapped.
>
>If I logon to the machine, as another user which does not have the drive
>mapped and request that the service be restarted, it will still fail to map
>the drive.
>
>If however, I logon as a user which has that drive mapped, even if it is a
>different user, and then restart the service, everything will work
>correctly.
>
>For some reason, this machine is not actually mapping its network drives
>unless an actual user logs into the system and connects to the drive.
>Obviously this is not very good for automatic recovery...
>
>Anyone have any ideas what would be causing this? It is a windows 2000
>pro system.
>
>Thanks,
>Leif
>
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