Win 2008 Mapped Drives Freezes Terminal Server

[AwesomeDuke]

Hi everyone,

I have an unusual setup and I hope someone can help me with it...

I have a Win 2008 Enterprise Server configured as a Terminal Server in APplication Mode with the following configuration:

- Dual Quad Core 2.5Ghz Xeon

- 8GB RAM

- 4 disk RAID 10 totalling 800GB partioned into C and D drives. 100Gb for C the remainder for D

- 3 disk RAID 5 totalling 800GB as E drive

- 1 disk as a JBOD as F Drive

My problem arose when I mapped user drives to the D Drive above like:

net use x: \\computername\sharename

Everytime a user would access a file from within the share it would freeze the entire server, which obviously includes all the other user on the TS server as well.

Any idea as to why this can't be done? I've done this before on Win2003 servers with no problems so why is this foo bar i Win 2008?

Any help or alternative suggestion will be much appreciated. Even an alternative work around would be great. Does anyone think using Subst would be a better way?

Thanks in advance...

Duke

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

Sorry, I cannot really help you with any workaround, as I do not have a 2008 server.

I define all mapped network drives by net use, and mapped local drives using subst. I am not sure if you can substitute one for the other. (But why not try it?)

I see in my login batch scripts that net use is used with userid and password, as follows

net use x: \\server\resource password /user:DOMAIN\userid

Do your users need to login to the server?