Thread: Automatic connecting of Network Drive

Hi everyone, I’m finding difficult for locating something which is related to this topic with the search function.

I've been making use of network which shares mapped to network drives for the present, and this one thing has been creating a problem for me for a long time: If I switch it from the WiFi to LAN, or vice-versa, my network drive which disconnects as well as unable to reconnect unless I open My Computer and in fact open the network drive. This is mainly irritating when I'm hearing music or watching video from the network share - it stops playing and unable to locate the file until I physically reconnect it to the network drive.

So I'm looking for a way to automatically reconnect to the network drive as soon as the connection is been lost - say in 3-second or so. Is there a solution to do this on XP SP3? I'd willingly make use of a third-party app, even if it'll cost me. Thanks in advance!

PS On a side note: Is there a way for setting up a favored network adapter? If WiFi and LAN are both connected, I'd like LAN to get all the heavy traffic, but sometimes large file transfers run over WiFi, which clearly takes ages... I know, I should just turn off WiFi - but I'm lazy like that. Port forwarding etc. would have to be remapped and so on, every time I switched from WiFi to LAN and back...

The only way for the network share also knows that it's been disconnected when you try to access the disk, so I'm not confirm that if you can fix the problem. The problem which can prefer for the wired connection not the wireless, this takes place automatically. Whenever I desire to work on a large file transfers on my laptops, using both XP and Vista, I just then have to plug the cable in. I've never encountered such kind of problem before picking the active wireless connection over the wired one, that's the default behavior.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!
I was assuming that if more with the lines of "If a network connection which is connected or disconnected then sees to it that all the network drives can be available. If not, then try it out to reconnect it again after every 3 seconds for 30 seconds."

There might be some sort of script for this problem?
The issue which seems to be that the network drives are bounded to one network adapter only. If I try to reconnect to a network drive when I'm on WiFi only, and then the plug in a LAN cable, where transfers is always running over the WiFi... The only solution which I'm aware about is turning off the WiFi and then reconnecting it again to the drive. I was also considering that some tiny third party utility that may also take care of both the problems for me... but at last, it seems that I'm alone being irritated by XP's network drives.

Well, you could almost certainly take up something with the Auto it for this type of function. I've also written a number of small functions for this, encompassing all the watching of NAS drives with a periodic ping for making confirm that they are still alive.