RED X on MAPPED DRIVES ACCROSS WAN

HEY all,

Listen i have a question, give me your thoughts or a
solution. I recently upgraded all my wan links to 3 megs.
Each regional site has a domain controler. Now they all
mapp to their own DC. But management has asked for 1
common drive accross the agency..Ive looked into DFS, i
dont like it. Id rather create a share here at headoffice,
and have my users map to it. I know it causes some
performance issues locally on the systems, but what really
is causing me issues..Users open the My computer, they
have red X's on the WAN mapping..well usually if you
double click it, it reconnects, but no in their case..they
must restart. Is there a setting in the registry to set
the keep alive connections??

Let me know your thoughts.

Mapped drives are "cave man" technology that goes back to the DOS days.
Just use the network path to the share. Just because you have a share
doesn't mean it requires a mapped drive letter to get to it.

It is actually easier to create a "shortcut" to a network loction than it is
to map a drive letter, it is less trouble, and it won't choke the life out
of Windows Explorer everytime you open it, nor will it bring the machine to
its knees when the user clicks on a "browse" button inside an application's
Common Dialog Box when the user needs to browse to a local file.


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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Josh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:279101c49c27$1dc601f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> HEY all,
>
> Listen i have a question, give me your thoughts or a
> solution. I recently upgraded all my wan links to 3 megs.
> Each regional site has a domain controler. Now they all
> mapp to their own DC. But management has asked for 1
> common drive accross the agency..Ive looked into DFS, i
> dont like it. Id rather create a share here at headoffice,
> and have my users map to it. I know it causes some
> performance issues locally on the systems, but what really
> is causing me issues..Users open the My computer, they
> have red X's on the WAN mapping..well usually if you
> double click it, it reconnects, but no in their case..they
> must restart. Is there a setting in the registry to set
> the keep alive connections??
>
> Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks Philip..thats a great idea..my only question would
be..how could i populate it to everyones system with out
needing to contact each person to create a network place?

Create a shortcut on one machine then copy the shortcut where you want it.
Shortcuts are just files. The "Desktop Folder" of the "All Users" local
profile is one place you could copy it, but you can be creative. If copying
it to the different locations is too much trouble, file attach it to them in
email and let them put it where they want it.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"JOSH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:099a01c49cb8$cb934b80$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks Philip..thats a great idea..my only question would
> be..how could i populate it to everyones system with out
> needing to contact each person to create a network place?