Losing Mapped drive after Logoff

[Circlenaut]

I have uTorrent running under a firedaemon pro service. The torrent files and data are located in a network drive (another computer on my network). When I log in as administrator (I checked the box that says reconnect network drive on log on) and fire up uTorrent by itself everything works fine. But when I run it under firedaemon and log off, the utorrent webgui tells me there's an i/o error. I'm assuming that the network drive drops after log-off. Is there a way for this not to happen? To have the drive mapped as a "service"?

Thanks,

Felipe

 

[DrGreen2007]

Lock PC instead of logoff ?

You answered your own question though "I checked the box that says reconnect network drive on log on"

 

[Circlenaut]

Well I found a solution. I just attached an external usb drive and used that as the utorrent storage directory.

 

[Circlenaut]

Well, I just ran into the problem again. This time I have a fileserver virtual machine and a media server virtual machine that I want to access the same HD. It seems like you can't do that with hyper-v. I'm trying to have the media server access the fileserver but that connection drops after logoff. The program in the media server runs as a service so I don't need to maintain the user logged on. Is there a way of doing this?

 

[dawks]

This is a reply to your first question. What you could do is rather then point to the files on a mapped drive, point to their share directly as in \\computername\share\file.torrent. (A mapped network drive just simplifies this. However some programs won't let you do this. They expect a drive letter. I am not familiar with uTorrent.

 

[seepy83]

As dawks said above, you would need to be able to use a UNC path (which all depends on the application you're running). Mapped Drives are based on the logged on user's session, and they do not exist if no one is logged on. If UNC path is not accepted by your software, then just leave the Server logged on and locked.

 

[imported_snikt]

Create a login script for your account or whichever account is being used to login. When you or the account is logged in, the login script will map whatever drives/shares you need.

Ex.: net use X: \\servername\sharename

 

[TheKub]

Originally posted by: seepy83
Mapped Drives are based on the logged on user's session, and they do not exist if no one is logged on.

Seconded. Firedeamon does not have that box checked.