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Alexander
Alexander

Reputation: 13

How to remove a not working network drive with batch?

I am trying to remove a mapped network drive and add it back again. Users who have problems with their mapped drives, can use this script to fix their not working network-drive so I dont have to do it by hand. Also, I am flushing the DNS since it could be the source of the issue the user has.

I am not that good at batch and don't understand, why my script ain't working. Hope someone can help here.

In response to @Gerhard: I make it this "complicated" since windows sometimes stops deleting mapped drives since it runs background tasks on it. And to make sure, the Drive gets deleted, I made this loop.

@echo off
::flushing DNS may also help with some problems a user might have
ipconfig /flushdns

::while the X drive exists, it the script tries to delete it till it succeeds. 
:while
IF exist "X:\*" (
    net use X: /delete
    if exist "X:\*"(
        goto  :while
    )
) ELSE (
    if not exist "X:\*" (
        net use X: \\<Domain> /persistent:yes
    )
)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2508

Answers (1)

user7818749
user7818749

Reputation:

Your else statement is not correct. The parentheses needs ro be on the same line as else. As in ) else (. You also do not need to parenthesize each if statement either. You needed a space between \( in the statement if exist X:\( and lastly, you do not need to check if not exist as your else statement already confirmed it does not:

@echo off
ipconfig /flushdns
:while
if exist X:\* (
    net use X: /delete
    if exist X:\* goto  :while
  ) else (
    net use X: \\<domain> /persistent:yes
)

Upvotes: 0

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