I’m trying to use group policy to distribute a startup .vbs script that will map network drives. On most of the pc’s that I have applied the scripts to, the scripts work fine. On others, though, I get the following error message: An attempt was made to remember a device that had previously been remembered, Error: 800704b2. I have disconnected the drive letters that are causing the problem before I restart the pc, but it still gives the error after it comes back up. I can login in to these pc’s, after receiving the error, and execute the scripts manually and they work. I have reinstalled windows on one of the pc’s that didn’t work before and that fixed the problem. The pc seems to think that the drive letter is in use even though it’s not. Any suggestions?
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AskWoody LoungerApril 14, 2004 at 1:22 pm #814515Nothing happens. No errors, no drives get mapped. I did find out that if I change the .vbs script path to the original path in the batch file, I don’t get the error. Persistent connections was originally turned on, but now it’s somehow remembering the old path even though it doesn’t get mapped and persistent connections is turned off.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 14, 2004 at 1:22 pm #814516Nothing happens. No errors, no drives get mapped. I did find out that if I change the .vbs script path to the original path in the batch file, I don’t get the error. Persistent connections was originally turned on, but now it’s somehow remembering the old path even though it doesn’t get mapped and persistent connections is turned off.
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