WHS connecting question

[nodle]

Ok here is my little problem, I have windows home server up and running and everything works great. I have my music collection on the server, and am sharing it out. I have the drive mapped to this folder, and have it re-connect at login. Then i load up a music progrma ie: Itunes, Foobar etc. and have it pointed to the mapped drive for the music collection. Now this works alright and everything, but if i restart the computer and then open the music program again it says it cant find the music, yet if i just do a quick log off and log back on then it sees it again and works fine. Now why do i have to do this each time when i have the drives mapped and tell it to re-connect at login? Is there anyway around this?

 

[Archer75]

It's probably trying to map the drive before the network adapter has connected and that's why it's failing.

OSX is doing the same thing to me. It fails to connect to the network drives I made aliases for on startup but because it takes a second longer for the adapter to start.

All I have to do, in OSX and windows, is connect to the shares myself either through finder or windows explorer and then I can just open itunes.

 

[nodle]

It's probably trying to map the drive before the network adapter has connected and that's why it's failing.

OSX is doing the same thing to me. It fails to connect to the network drives I made aliases for on startup but because it takes a second longer for the adapter to start.

All I have to do, in OSX and windows, is connect to the shares myself either through finder or windows explorer and then I can just open itunes.

So there is no way to have it autostart?

 

[Archer75]

So there is no way to have it autostart?

It is autostarting. Just faster than your adapter. Maybe a better question is, can you put a delay in so it tries to mount those shares alittle bit later. I have no idea.

 

[nodle]

It is autostarting. Just faster than your adapter. Maybe a better question is, can you put a delay in so it tries to mount those shares alittle bit later. I have no idea.

Well thanks for the help sir, it does make sense at what you are saying.

 

[Asgorath]

How about writing a program in C++ real quick that just loops for 15s, then quits. Then put that in a statup script that:

1) calls your program
2) maps the drives

 

[MechGeek]

How about writing a program in C++ real quick that just loops for 15s, then quits. Then put that in a statup script that:

1) calls your program
2) maps the drives

or write a batch file that pings a bogus address once with a timeout of 15000ms:

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 15000 > nul
net use x: \\whatever\c$
..

 

[Asgorath]

or write a batch file that pings a bogus address once with a timeout of 15000ms:

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 15000 > nul
net use x: \\whatever\c$
..

Me <-- Good Solution
MechGeek <-- Better Solution

 

[MechGeek]

i've had to deal with late-detecting hardware before. still, i can't believe windows doesn't have a sleep command.

 

[nodle]

Thanks guys for the help i will have to try it out!

 

[gimp]

oooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr..... wait a couple seconds, open up My Computer, then open your mapped drive.

Then when you open the application, it will work.

The problem is, Windows will reconnect to the mapped drive when access via My Computer, Explorer, etc, but it will not reconnect when the mapped drive is being accessed by a 3rd party app (generally speaking, anyway).

 

[nessus]

Me <-- Good Solution
MechGeek <-- Better Solution

Or just run "sleep 15"

Sleep has been included on all MS OS releases starting with XP.

 

[nodle]

oooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr..... wait a couple seconds, open up My Computer, then open your mapped drive.

Then when you open the application, it will work.

The problem is, Windows will reconnect to the mapped drive when access via My Computer, Explorer, etc, but it will not reconnect when the mapped drive is being accessed by a 3rd party app (generally speaking, anyway).

I think i actually tried this, but I still had to log off then back on.