Good evening,
I'm running into a strange issue on a Windows 7 machine. I'm working on deploying OpenVPN to our mobile workforce and they've requested the ability to have their home drive and another share automatically mapped when they log into the VPN.
So far, I'm using the following lines in a batch file:
net use O: \\172.23.6.127\shares /persistent:no
net use U: \\172.23.6.127\%USERNAME% /persistent:no
The command prompt opens as expected and the script executes successfully, however, I cannot see the network drives listed. If I immediately attempt to run the script manually, I get an error 53 telling me that the name is already in use.
As the image below shows, if I disconnect the VPN tunnel then reconnect without running the script automatically (i.e., by removing the UP script on the config folder), then run the batch file manually, the shares are mapped and they show up.
Any assistance would be really appreciated, thanks.
Best Answer
Most likely the process is being "run as administrator" which means they're mapped in a different user context than the currently logged on user, and also why it works properly when run manually. I'm assuming the OpenVPN process that calls this script is run as an administrator so that it can set the routes for the user? If so, then this is what you're seeing.