Windows 7 Not Mapping Network Drives
I’ve had several cases now where Windows 7 logons had problems with network drive scripts. The mapping issue was related to the way the accounts are created. Windows creates two logons, one as a non-admin token and the other contains your full token (blah, blah, blah). This happened to Vista as well.
It was designed to do this, but when your scripts don’t run it’s not a friendly design. Depending on how you join your domain, this may not be an issue.
If it is, you can enable a registry settings that allows the logon script to run regardless.
Use at your own risk. This is not supported by Microsoft.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and add a DWORD 32-bit key for EnableLinkedConnections and set its value to 1.
You’ll need to reboot afterwards, obviously.
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I have scowered the internet looking for a solution as to why my W7 Ultimate 32 bit OS stopped mapping my drives via a batch logon script.
You have finally given me the answer and it works like a charm.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the feedback.
AWESOME! This saved me a lot of hassle.
This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You are awesome!
This registry edit solved my problem. Thank you very much!
Really nice man. thanks.
You Rock! Thanks so much.
Thanks alot, had tons of problems in one of our brachoffices with this and I thought it was related to some sort of network or policy issue. This sorted all my probs
Do you make the change on each Windows 7 box or on a Domain Controller?
The registry fix is applied to the workstations. Don’t need to modify the DC. Good luck!
This solved the problem related to the windows 7 64 bit version as well.
Than You!