Manual command for batch file to map network drive?

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Manual command for batch file to map network drive?

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Yesterday I worked with the network people at work in order to map all the network drives that I need after connecting through the VPN they provided. After many tries (which involved making sure my domain name preceded my username) we finally got all my drives mapped. Success.

However - I only use the VPN (and therefore need the mapped drives) occasionally. I would like a way of "saving" the mappings (there are six of them, so it is no simple feat to redo them each time). I know that I can "reconnect on login" after mapping them, but then every day when I boot up normally I get an error message that all my drives could not connect because they can only be accessed after I launch the VPN.

Is there any way to write a batch file or create a script of have some way of easily mapping all six drives after I launch the VPN? Back in the Netware days I used to write batch files to map drives all the time, but the map command doesn't seem to be available on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (which is the new system I just purchased).

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much.

Regards

CJ Rhoads

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Windows 7 is able to process all the commands from the previous versions of Windows, plus a few extra ones. Here is the VPN batch file I use all the time. Save it as c:\Tools\MyVPN.bat, then create two new Desktop shortcuts:

Shortcut 1: c:\Tools\MyVPN.bat (to establish the VPN)
Shortcut 2: c:\Tools\MyVPN.bat xxx (to kill the VPN)

@echo off

goto Start

Establish a VPN with xxx

Parameters: RDP - Start a Remote Desktop session

other - Disconnect an existing session

14.5.2010 FNL

:Start

net use /persistent:no

if not "%1"=="" (

net use * /d /y

rasdial /disconnect

echo Done!

ping localhost -n 2 > nul

goto :eof

)

set User=CRhoads

echo.

echo Creating a VPN under user %User%

rasdial VPNName %User% * /domain:xxx

/phonebook:"%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk"

if %ErrorLevel% EQU 0 (

net use K: \192.168.1.11\Data

net use L: \192.168.1.11\UserFiles

net use M: \192.168.1.11\HR

etc.

)

echo Done!

ping localhost -n 5 > nul

Note that the line above starting with the word "rasdial" is a very long line that ends with ".pbk". If it is broken up on your screen then you must rejoin it. Note also that you can remove the line "net use /persistent:no" after running the batch file for the first time.

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