Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 28 2009 2:59PM GMT
I forgot to mention, the computers hold a good connection to the network, server, ext… but sometimes they do drop connection and this results in my issues with reconnecting, syncing, lose of mapped drives, ext…
Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 28 2009 8:10PM GMT
I have not allowed windows to manage the connections or AD yet. and also I feel very stupid for saying this, but I do not know if the connection properties are set to reconnect if disconnected… I will check into this tho.
How do I go about letting windows manage the mapped drives without a script, I thought that you had to have a script? See I would love to go to every computer 1 by one and add the mapped drives manually, but I don’t have the man power to do that in 1 day. How can I do it without a script?
Mshen
23905 pts. | Jul 28 2009 11:01PM GMT
What happens when you re-run the script without rebooting? That should remove the drives and re-map them. An alternative would be to make batch scripts for each group and apply that with a GPO login script.
I would look into the reason why the VPN connection is dropping. What type of VPN is setup?
Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 29 2009 3:34PM GMT
this is a login VBSscript in GPO for the user group. Our VPN connection is not dropping it’s just the mapped drives on re-map and some of our users have roming profiles and they will not re-sync once connection is dropped.
Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 29 2009 3:45PM GMT
the issue that I’m trying to get at is that I belive this VBSscript is causing some conflicts…
In the script above our company only has use for these script lines
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‘Map drives needed by all
‘wshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “z:”, “\**SERVER NAME**users” & UserString,True ‘Basically maps home drive
‘wshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “s:”, “\**SERVER NAME**common”,True
____________________AND_______________________________
Case “administrators”
wshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “t:”, “\**SERVER NAME****FILE NAME**”,True
____________________AND_______________________________
‘Call WSHShell.Run(”cmd.exe /C \serverfolderfolderfolderscan32.exe”)
‘Quit the Script
wscript.quit
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as I have stated, I’m not an expert in scripts, but can I take out some of the unneeded entries in the script and it still function as it should? and could some of this be causing us problems?
Mshen
23905 pts. | Jul 29 2009 9:55PM GMT
I don’t see any problems with the script, but to ease your mind about this script, you can do as I mentioned before which is replace the script with a batch script for each group by using the NET USE command.
The login script would not be the reason why these drives disconnect. I’m thinking this is a more ominous issue with your network or VPN.
Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 30 2009 7:14PM GMT
ok, I see what your getting at now lol. Easing my mind is one thing, but I do need to fix this problem on my network. Where might I look to see what is causing the problem? the main problem is in the local office to the server. The software my users are using is a LIVE SQL base software. When the network connection drops for the unknown reason the software freezes and the user may loose some work they have done. once the connection has dropped they must reboot to get back on the software or the internet.
This does not happen all at once with every computer getting dropped, just every so often 1 will drop.
Mshen
23905 pts. | Jul 31 2009 1:48AM GMT
Intermittent problems are the hardest to figure out. Check the event logs to see if there are any errors around the time that the connection drops. You should also make sure there is a keep-alive; if the VPN becomes inactive after a few minutes of inactivity, that may be causing the problem.
Madpawn
215 pts. | Jul 31 2009 1:02PM GMT
I will check the log next time it happens and let you know. The VPN is set to keep alive for sure, just checked that.
Madpawn
215 pts. | Aug 18 2009 8:21PM GMT
I’ve checked the event log. nothing seems to be showing an error to relate to the connection to the network being dropped. could there be a issue in GPO that might cause this connection loss?
Mshen
23905 pts. | Aug 19 2009 12:28AM GMT
Monitor your bandwidth usage on the WAN if your equipment has the functionality; you may have to use some third party software and mirror the port. This will help you diagnose the issue.
You can also test connectivity by sending an unlimited ping from one side to another to see if there is latency and packet loss at certain times of the day. That will also give you a secondary keep alive.
Madpawn
215 pts. | Sep 9 2009 1:49PM GMT
I have found the problem with our network. The problem was our ASA5510. There was a setting in the access list that was causing this problem. It was blocking all internal traffic to our main server. once we did a “NO…” command for it everything is fine on the network.
Thank you to all of you who have helped me in this effort to solve the problem!
Mshen
23905 pts. | Sep 9 2009 6:07PM GMT
Thanks for posting the solution. I’m glad things worked out for you.






