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Duane Hebert
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      03-27-2009
I had some network shares mapped but they are no longer available. I've disconnected them but each time that I reboot, I get errors
that it can't connect to these drives. I don't see where to permanently disconnect them. Using Vista Business with sp1.

 
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Kerry Brown
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      03-27-2009

"Duane Hebert" <> wrote in message
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> I had some network shares mapped but they are no longer available. I've
> disconnected them but each time that I reboot, I get errors that it can't
> connect to these drives. I don't see where to permanently disconnect
> them. Using Vista Business with sp1.


Start an elevated command prompt (Right click and pick Run as
Administrator). Type in:

NET USE * /DELETE

This will delete all mapped drives. You will have to remap the drives you
want to keep. If they still persist on reboot then somewhere a logon script
is mapping the drives.

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Duane Hebert
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      03-27-2009
> Start an elevated command prompt (Right click and pick Run as
> Administrator). Type in:
>
> NET USE * /DELETE
>
> This will delete all mapped drives. You will have to remap the drives you
> want to keep. If they still persist on reboot then somewhere a logon script
> is mapping the drives.


That's strange. I have a batch file that maps some drives, runs an exe that
needs them and then deletes them. So it's like:

net use X:\\SomeUNCPath /user:someuser somepassword
....
some.exe
net use X: /DELETE
....

This didn't seem to work. But I ran the * delete from the command line
and it seems to have removed the maps.

Thanks.
 
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