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Persistent Connection to Network Drives

by Jason Bean on August 8th, 2006

Time to throw a question out there to everyone.

In my full-time job my business partner and I show up everywhere with our laptops and work onsite for clients. He has a folder on his laptop shared out, which I have mapped to a drive on my laptop.

Everything works fine when we’re connected together to the switch. I can access the shared folder and he can access the folder as well.

The problem occurs on the occassions when we don’t have the opportunity to connect both computers to the switch. When the primary laptop isn’t connected to the switch, it doesn’t treat the folder as a local file, but as a network drive on the main machine. Since the OS doesn’t see the machine connected to any type of network, it determines that the folder resource is not available, even though it’s located on the same drive as the main OS.

I need a quick fix. Anyone got some ideas? And please don’t waste my time with how Apple, Linux, Ubuntu or whatever else could fix the problem and that my bigger problem is we’re using Windows machines.

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