Happens here a bit, double clicking on them clears it right up. In regards to what everyone previously stated I notice this happen when i'm on WiFi more often than hard wired. It can most definitely be a problem. For example, a printer share or a file share that is necessary for a program to function.
If ours do not map properly on boot, the user will crash out of the program they are using. Ironically I see this getting worse, not better, as Microsoft speeds up the boot process.
Certain things, like network negotiation, take time regardless of what else the OS does. The OS is not waiting for that to complete before saying, "hey, I can't see the network. The same sometimes applies to other external devices.
If you have a laptop, does it happen if you leave your laptop at work? I'm guessing that you only see it when you connect to another network and windows has to reestablish the connection when you get back to work. It doesn't have time to connect to the domain before the mapped drives policy hits.
I know it makes some people go nutty, but since there is no real problem I have never investigated a solution. The problem for me is that it is a real problem. When this message appears, my shortcuts to files on my servers do not work.
I wish people would stop saying this. If you have something that relies on that connection, it is a major problem. I've only ever come across one application that requires mapped drives to connect. For the rest we use UNC paths. So, yes, it can be a problem, but you can usually use the UNC instead of drive letter.
If it is the latter and you are using windows r2 try Group Policy Preferences If the application requires connection to shared files etc, I can see this being a problem. To mitigate this one, you could set your network connection to come up automatically, but delayed as previously stated. This isn't potentially a fix, more a work around, but should stop the application freaking out when required files etc aren't available. In most situations I've seen the problem is simply a false report, and the first attempt to actually USE the drive works fine and corrects the windows error display.
If it actually requires something special to connect to that drive after the computer has fully booted then you are looking at a different issue than I am talking about. For what I'm discussing you can just click on the drive or access something in it and it works fine.
For example, we use a mapped drive for an application here, nearly every pc uses this and nearly every time they display that message on a cold boot. I have yet to have it actually be an issue. I get the same thing at home with mapped drives. Generally I only see it in this form meaning a false negative report when using a computer with a faster than usual boot process.
At home I've got an SSD in the main machine and here at the office they're small Lenovos that never quite turn off unless you disconnect their power. So even off they still retain much of Windows in memory and boot rapidly. As far as I know this is a bug in Windows. In the pop-up window, select Enabled and save the changes by clicking Apply. Click OK to exit. For could not reconnect all network drives disable message Windows 10 , you can set it in Windows Registry Editor.
Find and double-click RestoreConnection on the right section of the window. Click OK to save changes. Put the notepad file NetworkDriveMap. Copy and paste the following command into another notepad, save and name it as NetworkDriveMap. In the Create Task window, in the General tab, specify a name and description for this task, and click OK. Click Change User or Group in the above picture and the below window will pop up.
Within the popup, click on the Object Types button and select Groups or Users in the new pop-up window. Then, click OK to save the selection and OK again to exit the below window. Step 5. Move to the Triggers tab, click New. In the next window, choose At log on in Begin the task column.
Step 6. Go to the Actions tab and choose New. Next, pick Start a program in the Action field; type Powershell. And if Microsoft has a hotfix or something in the works, that would be great to know. It did randomly resurface once, but the reason for that was that Active Directory was mapping the user drive automatically at login, but the drive was being mapped in the login script as well.
I removed it from the login script, and haven't seen it since. I started off implementing this on a few computers for testing purposes, and as of Monday have successfully rolled this out to the entire company about users.
I have not had any user complaints, or seen the issue since. Whenever I mapped the drives in Windows it asked for credentials. However these credentials were then created with a persistence type of "Logon session" which is not editable. Having discovered this, I restarted windows and then before supplying the credentials to reconnect the mapped drives, I added credentials explicitly as follows: 1.
Next to the heading "Windows Credentials" click on the link "Add a Windows credential". Enter the name of your server and the appropriate credentials. The result is an entry that has a persistence type of "Enterprise". This seems to do the trick. I then restarted windows. Hey Mikes That sounds about right. Very specific actions trigger the network refresh by Explorer, but is it worth the hassle of trying to explain that process to a user?
Even worse is how silly that looks on paper! From what I think I remember, batch scripts can trigger a refresh of the network connections but a VBScript will not. Found that the users had a previous persistent drive mapping to their Personal User Drive U: drive. Since then, their personal user drive mapping U: drive was added to their AD profile for automatic mapping.
Resolved by disconnecting their personal user drive at the problem machine by right clicking and selecting disconnect. This kills the persistent mapping. After reboot, the AD profile takes over and maps the drive U: drive.
Error no longer appears. I've been playing catch up since my vacation, and I have other initiatives I need to concentrate on at this time so I won't be working on this soon. Plus its likely to help others in the future. Does the key need to be created in the network key, or in the key for the individual drives listed? I had this problem with a Windows Domain with Windows 8 machines - it was driving me mad but I believe I have now solved it!
I am mapping a network drive to a network share based on membership of a specific Security Group. No matter what I did every time one of those users logged in they got the balloon warning that all network drives were not available - even though when you looked in File Explorer they were!!! You're correct: The answer has been to create a batch file to reconnect the drive mappings.
It could be something as simple as this:. If you need some help, create a new post, let us know what you want to accomplish and I'm certain someone will swoop in to help you out! I know this might be an old thread, but in answer to the OP's question: "Is there anything I can do to to prevent that message from popping up along with preventing the icon from displaying in the system tray?
I had this problem with mapped drives that I want to remain "connected" whether I am on or off my company VPN. The alert is really annoying when I am off the VPN because of course the drives won't connect. But with this fix the drives stay mapped and will connect the very first time I click on them once I am again on VPN, and I get no annoying alert message on start-up.
It is an old thread For the average non-enterprise user like myself, NetDrives has solved the problem that MS refuses to address. And for most of us, Policy Editor is unavailable.
NetDrive connects the drives in 8. Thank you flguy for the fix I've been hunting for. I have the same problem with domain and Windows 7 clients where drives are mapped via Group Policy Preferences.
For us, the impact is on a line-of business application that needs to access templates on a mapped drive it's legacy software that doesn't allow UNC paths for that setting.
Users are calling IT support and being told that they have to open Windows Explorer and double click the drive to connect before they can print off their form. Some drives were getting the red X and some weren't. I thought it was because the "bad" targets were Dfs and others were "normal" server shares. I'm not using item-level targeting for that policy, but I don't really want to go back to using logon scripts to map drives.
Have changed them all to "no", will see if that works. I can understand the reasoning: instead of making connections persistent, you recreate them each logon via script or GPP. If there are no persistent connections, then you won't get a message that they couldn't be reconnected. What I hope is that the application will also think the drive is connected without intervention.
Otherwise I might have to try "always wait for the network at computer startup and logon", but that's a kludge: it's intended for group policy processing, not for reconnecting network drives. It's disappointing that Microsoft doesn't want to fix this.
Here is my cmd script to re- connect drives add to startup. I have this problem all the time and it drives me nuts. Every single time i boot up, or return from standby, or hibernation, this sorry ass popup pops up, and tells me it can't reconnect my network drives, but open explorer, and there they are. Thing is, when microsoft fails, their developers are so fucking lazy, they won't trash their mistakes and start over.
I shouldn't have to go through a basket of work arounds to fix a design flaw. This website doesn't even work correctly. Microsoft leads the circus when it comes to modern programming, and design failure. I had a client with Windows 7 users where the connections would not consistently "reconnect at sign in". I created a batch file using net use to disconnect and then reconnect the share and added it to start up. As an added benefit, the "Could not connect network drives" startup messages went away as well.
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