I'm administrating the network at my workplace, and trying to solve a problem that is intermittent, but frustrating for the users. The problem is that sometimes (its always different students, and different machines) the student will log on but not have access to the shared drives. This problem is usually solved by logging off and logging back on. I know this is a simple solution, but when the logon times can sometimes be 2 or 3 minutes and they only have 40 minute lessons, the students and teacher get frustrated and annoyed. Can anybody suggest why this is happening? Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure what is causing that problem, but a workaround that you could do until you solve the problem is to write a script that will map the network drives. If the student logs in and the drives aren't mapped, they could simply run the script instead of logging off and back on. This assumes that the problem is not related to the users not having access to the network. Michael J

Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention that the drives are already mapped using a logon script. As a workaround I may hide a script somewhere to run when it happens.

You already have a hidden script at \\servername\netlogon If the drive mappings don't change often you may want to make them persistent add persistent:yes to the script. ie "net use u: \\servername\%username% /persistent:yes" <