Hi, You may try these KBs: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938062 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2551503/ Also enable "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" policy under Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Logon in the Group Policy Regards, Leo Huang Please 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.

When i use a laptop and log on to the domain a few mapped drives showing up. These drive are mapped thru a GPP depending on department. Everything works well but i take the laptop to my home and connect then thru a vpn. The problem then is that Outlook does not start because he cannot find the networkdrivers. When i look at the drive in explorer, they are working when i click on them but have a red cross, though they work when clicking on them. Outlook doesn't see them however. I have read on the Internet of time outs in Windows 7 when networkdrives are not used. Is this the same problem, inactivity of the shares? This problem occurs every time because connecting thru network and then at home thru vpn is different... freddie