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<blockquote data-quote="neognat" data-source="post: 71962" data-attributes="member: 24280">I'm a newbie to MP, but I have a suggestion. You could try a logon script. I've done this with success. There's more than one way to go about it so you may want to Google the subject for more info. Anyway, there's a good old DOS command that can create and remove mapped drives: net use d: \\192.168.0.4\d\movies /user:myusername passwordThis creates a map to d: that usually works quite nicely. You can use several of these commands in a batch file that runs at logon. However, the problem you describe doesn't really sound like a problem with the drive mappings. It sounds like a network problem--like your MP box is having trouble resolving the address to the other computer. I'd look for a conflict. Do you have any multi-homed computers? Do you use static or dynamic IPs? Are you using UNC paths with NETBIOS name resolution? Static IPs and a tweak of the hosts and lmhosts files can speed things up quite a bit. There's also a way to tweak NIC's to avoid bandwidth throttling, but I'd have to look that one up. A little information about your network configuration would be helpful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="neognat, post: 71962, member: 24280"] I'm a newbie to MP, but I have a suggestion. You could try a logon script. I've done this with success. There's more than one way to go about it so you may want to Google the subject for more info. Anyway, there's a good old DOS command that can create and remove mapped drives: net use d: \\192.168.0.4\d\movies /user:myusername password This creates a map to d: that usually works quite nicely. You can use several of these commands in a batch file that runs at logon. However, the problem you describe doesn't really sound like a problem with the drive mappings. It sounds like a network problem--like your MP box is having trouble resolving the address to the other computer. I'd look for a conflict. Do you have any multi-homed computers? Do you use static or dynamic IPs? Are you using UNC paths with NETBIOS name resolution? Static IPs and a tweak of the hosts and lmhosts files can speed things up quite a bit. There's also a way to tweak NIC's to avoid bandwidth throttling, but I'd have to look that one up. A little information about your network configuration would be helpful. [/QUOTE]

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