{"id":1166,"date":"2022-02-26T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2022-02-26T19:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:18:46","slug":"windows-and-re-connecting-to-network-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Windows and Re-connecting to Network Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes my work machine running Windows 10 loses it’s VPN connection, but when the VPN connection is re-established I’m finding the network drives no longer want to connect.<\/p>\n

Click the Start button, then type in “cmd” and enter to bring up a command prompt. Then insert the following text:<\/p>\n

net use p:<\/code><\/p>\n

Which then spews out the following if you’re lucky:<\/p>\n

Local name p:
\nRemote name \\\\yourcompanydomainname.com\\projects
\nResource type Disk
\nThe command completed successfully.<\/code><\/p>\n

After returning to navigate folders in Windows indeed the network file paths are working again – woohoo! I think in the old days Windows I occasionally had to re-run a .bat script to re-establish network file path connectivity, but this seems to be a bit easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes my work machine running Windows 10 loses it’s VPN connection, but when the VPN connection is re-established I’m finding the network drives no longer want to connect. Click the Start button, then type in “cmd” and enter to bring … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}