Vista - Can you tell VISTA not to try to reconnect to network or mapped drives?

Hello!
This is an issue about VISTA going into "LIMBO" trying to reconnect to my mapped network drives, which I know I don't have access since I'm connected VPN...

This issue isn`t isolated to VISTA. I`ve had this issue with all Windows OS, I just never found a solution.

The workstation is part of the network, we log into a DOMAIN (pretty standard...)
Often, when using certain VPNs, the "tunneling security" causes you to loose "Network Connections"... which is fine.

I.e.
If I have a mapped drive to a share on the network
or
If my default printer is a Network Printer, I cannot access it. You will get the "Could not reconnect to the network share, etc.etc. or printer is unavailable")
Often, same goes for email with Outlook...

Now, when I use various programs such as PL/SQL, MS Word, or Windows Explorer and many more, VISTA,XP, etc,.etc, they all want to be very nice and try to reconnect me automatically to the mapped drive or look for the printer, even If I haven't clicked on the mapped network, or tried to print anything. You get the busy hourglass (or little circle in VISTA), and you have to wait, and wait, and wait until you know you eventually get the "could not reconnect message" and you move on with your life.

All this to ask the following Question: Is there anyway for me to tell VISTA.... "Stop looking, stop trying to reconnect or look for the printer, I know they are not available!"

Any settings which I can set to limit VISTA to look for say: 5 seconds then quit?

If not, any of you guys at Microsoft read these posts?

TIP: We did work a solution with regards to the printer. The solution is:
create a bogus printer that is local to your workstation (or use another local printer, or whatever - as long as it is not on the network) and make it the default. That work around kinda sucks as anytime you want to print (when you actually have network connectivity), you have to flip back the default or manually select from the list.

Any help would be awesome. Any gurus out there?

I know this is an old post... But has anyone figured something out?

Yo wassup


Im sorry i have a german verison of vista
but if you click thta button in the red box it shouldnt try to remap after you log on
try it out and tell us the results

some printers also ahve a advanaced tab where you can set time timee which is displayed in the red box

nso5300, thanks for replying...

I am aware of the checkbox Reconnect after logon and I don't want to loose that. All I'm trying to accomplish here is to tell the O/S to stop looking for the mapped drive after 5 seconds or so. i.e apply a timeout instead of waiting 30-40 sec everytime to get the "cannot reconnect" message.

Again, this is due to the fact that i'm connecting to various different sites using vpn which turns around and "locks" my local network. I can still navigate on my workstation, but any program that tries to access a share on a network will take forever to open. I.e PL SQL Developer. We have shared reports that are sitting on our G: drive (Network share). If I'm connected vpn to a site that blocks my network, then it will take 3 times the amount of time to open up the program.

I still don't believe this could be limited to vpn. Say you have a mapped drive to an FTP share and the FTP server goes down... Next time you will click on the mapped drive it will hang and eventually give you the message that it's not available.

As for the printer (your second reply), That advanced setting is only used to control whether or not the printer is always available, or between which time it is... It doesn't really fix the problem in the initial post. (Or am I missing something?)

Sorry bout that i did a little research and i found a knowedge base about issuse
Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost
this something for the server side not the client
I tried to reproduce the situation but everytime the server or the client loses its connection it immedietaly brings a erro message that the network drive is not avaliable

nso5300. The article you mention in your reply deals with the scenario that you do in fact have a connection to the network. The article shows how to control the amount of time that the connection should stay active before automatically disconnecting.

What I'm talking about is the following:
1- I have network connection to my map drive. (all is fine at this point...)
2- I need to do some work at a site in Timbucktoo therefore I launch VPN and connect.
3- The VPN tunneling security "shuts down" my access to the network. (all is fine again at this point. I am aware of that)
4- I launch Windows Explorer because I need to access a file on my local C: drive.
5- I get the hour glass because Vista is trying to reconnect all my mapped drive which I know will not work.
5(scenario 2) - I launch PL/SQL developer and it takes forever for it to open since it's trying to load the reports on the G:\ drive (mapped on network) and/or it attempts to map to the network printer.
6 I wait, wait, wait and I know Vista will eventually come back from Limbo land.

I would just love to have a way to tell Vista. "Stop looking! I know it's not there..." or again be able to setup a timeout to say "Look for it, try to map, but stop if it does not work after 5 seconds".

Your article was very close to what I'm looking for but it implies that you do indeed have network connection where as my scnerario is that I don't...

hmmmmmmmmm
well were getting closer
ime keep lookin

why not write a 2 little scrpits one to log off and one to log on

so what happened