Windows 7 "Could not reconnect all network drives" on boot

Windows 7 won't reconnect to my network drives on startup.

Once it is done booting opening Windows Explorer and clicking each share will mount them.

Windows 7 Enterprise N Service Pack 1

I have attempted formatting the windows machine - first thing done to machine was to map the network drives, upon reboot they were disconnected. It is running on an Crucial M4 64gb SSD.

The host of the network shares is a Ubuntu-Server machine connected through a gigabit switch. A modem provides dhcp, although both these machines have static IP's defined.

It won't reconnect the drives regardless of whether they're SAMBA shares or NFS shares - therefore I believe it's an issue with the windows machine.

Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64)

I've tried using ip address instead of netbios name for mapping shares on the windows machine,

Also tried setting EnableLinkedConnections=1

gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System-Logon - always wait for the network at computer startup and logon = yes

Thermionix

Posted 2011-11-08T03:47:06.013

Reputation: 751

You should post the error from Event Viewer. For all we know, your network port doesn't magically turn on until 20 seconds into login. . . – surfasb – 2011-11-08T09:49:20.793

Gateway resolution failed on interface {8e9717be-da36-457d-80e0-6c146377100c} for 192.168.1.1 with error: 0x43 – Thermionix – 2011-11-09T09:17:12.473

@Thermionix Were you ever able to find a solution to this issue? – Dev – 2014-03-14T00:40:28.037

Yeah; stopped using windows – Thermionix – 2014-03-14T01:06:49.653

Answers

Use the Credential Manager and specify an "Enterprise" persistence username+password

http://windowsforum.com/threads/could-not-reconnect-all-network-drives-problem.3262/

Goto Control Panel -> All control Panel Items -> Credentials Manager

Next to the heading "Windows Credentials" click on the link "Add a Windows credential".

Enter the name of your NAS server ("NAS" in my case) and the appropriate credentials.

The result is an entry that has a persistence type of "Enterprise". This seems to do the trick. (I then restarted windows)

arantius

Posted 2011-11-08T03:47:06.013

Reputation: 285

Unfortunately my credentials for access to the share are already saved in Credential Manager with 'Enterprise' persistence – Thermionix – 2012-05-02T00:57:53.120

When I had this problem I resolved it by unchecking the Connect using different credentials check box when mapping the network drive. This allowed the network drives to reconnect at Windows startup.

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Joe Perrin

Posted 2011-11-08T03:47:06.013

Reputation: 148

I've tried many things to fix this problem including the Microsoft hotfix route but found that the solution below (resetting the TCP/IP) was what worked for me. After resetting and rebooting, I used credential manager to connect again. The connections persisted normally as an "enterprise" connection through several reboots.

To reset your TCP/IP in Windows 7 you have to:

Open an elevated Command prompt (Right Click CMD.EXE and choose Run as administrator)
Type one of the following:
netsh interface ipv4 reset
netsh interface ipv6 reset
Restart your Computer.

Mike

Posted 2011-11-08T03:47:06.013

Reputation: 1