Mapped drive won't disconnect.

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ReaperofDreams

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I just recently swapped out the file server everyone was using at work to a new server. I pushed out a script that disconnected the current mapped drive, and then reconnected it to map to the new server.

My problem is this, all the computers are displaying they are disconnected from the mapped drive, yet when anyone clicks on the disconnected drive it goes directly to the network folder (as if it were connected).

I've tried to manually disconnect the drive both through the gui and CLI and re-enter it in so the disconnected drive messages will go away, but windows doesn't seems to want to disconnect it.

Running Server 2003 Enterprise, client machines are all Windows XP.

Any help would be great as my users are driving me nuts.
 
You mentioned pushing a script to disconnect the drive, but is the command to disconnect the drive in their login script? Also remove permissions on that drive and they shouldn't be able to access it.
 
The script that runs when they login to their computer (set as a script that is applied to a Group, of which all the users are in) disconnects the s: drive, the script then maps the new server's shared folder to the s: drive.

I'm not worried about access to the old server, they can't access it at all. When they click on the disconnected network drive it takes them to the new network drive they're supposed to be connected to, just as it should be.

The name for the drive remains Disconnected Network Drive, and when starting windows they receive the could not connect to network drives pop-up bubble.
 
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