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| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:11 | comment | added | Eternal21 | @ScottStafford No /persistent:yes is not enough on Win7 and later. The mapping gets removed after reboot regardless of that switch. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 13:35 | comment | added | davidfrancis | This worked well on a Windows laptop running a Windows VM. The Vm maps a drive onto some of the host's disk space, and also wishes to use symbolic link on the VM's C: drive to point to the shared drive and therefore point to the correct place on the host's disk space. The VM needs to access this disk space from a Windows service so I needed this workaround with a scheduled job running as System. Thanks | |
| May 1, 2016 at 22:52 | comment | added | NMC | @TechJerk Did you ever find a fix for the logon failure ? | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Scott Stafford | Why does it need to be a scheduled task? It is /persistent:yes, isn't that enough to keep it around? | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | spankmaster79 | @TechJerk did you solve your problem? I'm having the same trouble and can't get it to work | |
| Oct 27, 2013 at 1:19 | comment | added | Jim Hunziker | This the only method that worked for me on Windows 8.1. I had to do it to back up my NAS to Crashplan, and the trigger was set to happen when any user logged in. | |
| Sep 25, 2013 at 10:41 | comment | added | Edd |
@Thomas it doesn't matter which starts first providing the task has been run at least once because of the /persistent:yes
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| Jul 18, 2013 at 7:32 | comment | added | Gopi | I tried this on 2008 R2, it creates a Disconnected Mapped Drive and when I try to open the same it says "z:\ is not accessible. Logon Failure:unknown user name or bad password." But I was able to create mapped drive successfully by running the same bat file manually. Ny insights? | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 14:02 | history | edited | bluish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 14:26 | comment | added | Thomas | what starts first? a windows service or this scheduled task? our service dies at start if the path is unavailable. We'd have to rebuild this if the service starts last. | |
| Oct 23, 2011 at 15:28 | history | answered | larry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |