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    jgoerich Guest

    Disconnected Network Drive - Zombie Drive?

    Within an Lotus Notes application I use a shell script which just map a drive
    and delete these mapping after use. It looks like;
    net use I: \\<server>\<share> <psw> /USER:<user>
    [...]
    net use I: /delete
    It's running at a Windows 2003 machine.
    Now, if the app runs a 2nd time I get an error;
    "System error 85 has occured
    The local device name is already in use"
    If I type in the commands at the command prompt I get the same error.
    If I try to delete the mapping with net use I: /delete I get "The network
    connection could not be found".
    If I use net use within the command, there isn't no mapped drive with the
    letter I:!
    If I look at the explorer there I see the "Disconnected Network Drive (I:)".
    Right click and "Disconnect" produce an error prompt "The network connection
    could not be found"!
    If I doubleclick this (zombie) drive, the explorer shows the share?!

    I grazed the web for any solution. But there are just a lot of people with
    the same problem and nowhere is an answer. It isn't a solution for me to
    reboot this productive server just for get rid of these zombie drives.

    Thanks for help
    Jan
    Goerich

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    Mike [MSFT] Guest

    Re: Disconnected Network Drive - Zombie Drive?

    Some things you might try:
    Using 'if exist' to check or the presence of the mapped drive and using the
    /y argument to force it to close the mapped drive.
    For example:
    if exist I: net use I: /d /y

    Also, add the /persistent:no switch to the net use command, so it won't try
    to reconnect the mapped drive at the next logon:
    net use I: \\server\share /u:server\user password /persistent:no

    If it happens again, try typing just:
    net use I:
    and see what the status of the mapped drive is.

    If that doesn't work, try:
    subst
    and see if the I: drive has somehow been associated to another path
    if it is, use: subst I: /d

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    Zombie drives

    You may want to check to see if you have offline folders enabled. If they are you will not be able to delete that mapping.

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    Detroit, MI, United States of America
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    That Worked!

    Disabling "Offline Folders" did the trick. Thanks very much. I was running out of drive letters to use for mapping network drives.

    RN

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