Intermittent Mapped drive Problem

I have a W2k3 AD. We have mostly XP Pro for OP SYS and some w2k.

This is a problem that appears only on some of the XP users machines some of
the time ( normally is unavailable only when they really need it.)

I am running into a problem with mapping drives.
I am running user logon scripts through group policy that map (i.e.) S: to
\\server\Public.
This share is setup and you can get to it just find through netbios and
active directory. (It is a shared drive listed in the directory)
In My Computer it is listed as a Disconnected Network Drive.

This does not sound so bad except for the fact that the program that
they try accessing the drives through does not recognize this as a valid
drive.

However if you click on the link it then opens to that directory.
If I try and disconnect the drive it tells me that the item is unavailable.
If I try to remap it it tells me that the item is already taken.
If I run the command net use it provides me with the data that it is
disconnected.

I have enables the slow link connection, the loopback processing, at the
default domain level and for each script. I have tried disabling running
logon scripts synchronously I have tried enabling this feature as well.

I map several drives to different shares on the same server. They are all
the same type of .bat file.

BOF
net use [driveletter]: /delete
net use [driveletter]: "\\servername\sharename" /persistent:NO
EOF

Please help!!!!!

Just as a point of interest, have you tried using /persistent:yes?

I've always seen the same crazy "disconnected" behavior but it doesn't
seem to matter to my applications.

~Jason

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