frustrating problem with NetApp CIFS Shares and Network Drives

jenoptik — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:33:02 GMT

Hi everyone,

After I tried so many things to get a problem solved with netapp-shares & win7 network drive mappings, I decided to post it here.

My Problem is:

Users map their network drives by using a logon-script (lying at the DC) after boot/login and the network drives are marked as not connected (red cross symbol).

The Network drives are mapped using DFS(netapp-vol -> netapp-share -> dfs-path <- mounted by user

I tried:

manipulation of the script to wait for network connection

manipulation of the script to wait just more than 30 seconds

manipulation of the script to kill/remap drives in different ways

manipulation of the registry for waiting of network connection (1 of 6 drives mapped correctly)

manipulation of energy options in the configuration of the NIC

Now, I'm at the end of my knowledge.

May you have any hints what I can do?

Are there existing filer options I have to know for a share/dfs/network drive constellation?

Thx,

jenoptik

Re: frustrating problem with NetApp CIFS Shares and Network Drives

Anoop — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:00:49 GMT

Hi,

This needs detailed analysis of the scripts to narrow down on the issue. Please check if the shares been configured as per the best practices below

http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-3967.pdf

http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-3782.pdf

Regards,

Anoop

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