Could not reconnect all network drives
I have several drives mapped on different Windows 7 boxes in my office. Just about every time I boot up one of these systems I receive the message "Could not reconnect all network drives" in the system tray. I should note that merely clicking the drive inside Windows Explorer will restore the connection. I store the server logon credentials in Control Panel / Credential Manager then just map the network paths to drive letters. I'm pretty sure the problem doesn't stem from any credentials type of problem though, because I have the exact same situation when connecting to only open shares. I have noticed that a couple applications will restore the connection themselves when trying to access information on a share. Most applications however will give an error and time out trying to access the shares unless I go and manually click each drive letter in Explorer. For instance if I place Firefox bookmarks on a share and open Firefox, Firefox will display no bookmarks until I click the drive in Explorer and reopen Firefox. One thing I can do to fix the problem is hard code my IP address. I never receive the message if a computer has fixed IP address. My router hands out IPs on the LAN dynamically, so I switch it to another router and tried a using a Linux based dhcp-server as well. Neither fixed the problem. I'm a long time user of batch files and realize I could place use one as a band aid for this issue, but I don't want to go that route.
July 14th, 2010 12:43am

you can try if configuring the "always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" policy in Computer Config\Administrative Templates\System\Logon affects the problem.
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July 14th, 2010 1:58am

Yeah, I had tried that. Just toogled that to enabled again to be certain, and it doesn't help.
July 14th, 2010 4:45am

Most of these behaviors are caused by firewall. You may temporary disable firewall on the computers that share the folder with red X. Additionally, if any problematic computers have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installed, please refer the following article to resolve the issue. Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be LostPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 15th, 2010 11:29am

I can completely disable the firewall and that doesn't help. I'm willing to try anything though. I'm pretty sure this is a general problem with Windows 7. Any machine I have that doesn't have a hard coded ip address has this problem. While searching for a solution I've seen others with the exact problem. Other than the hard coding the ip that I come up with, I've haven't seen a solution yet either.
July 16th, 2010 5:57pm

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