Network drive after restart disconnect

Question

I need advice. I run a script on my computer that copies the files to the network drive. Periodically, it turns on via the task scheduler. But it happens that after a reboot the network drive does not connect - even though when I set it up I checked "reconnect at login". (Usually I just double-click on the drive and it reconnects). But if I don't do this, the script can't put it anywhere because the disk doesn't seem to be there.

I tried:

• turning off fast booting,

• put a batch file in the folder after boot:

  @echo Create new Y: drive mapping
    net use Y: \\server\folder
    :exit
  

• put another batch file in the "after boot" folder

    @echo off
  
    :Start
    timeout /t 5 /nobreak >NUL
    if exist Y:\NUL goto End
    net use Y: \\server\folder /USER:domain\user password /PERSISTENT:YES
    if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Start
    :End
  

But neither solved the problem.

Answer 1

I had exactly this problem some days ago. The solution I used was nothing really professional, but it worked.

I just created a textfile via powershell within the networkfolder. Everytime I now restart my PC it just writes the newest date in this txt. I know its not perfect, but it works.

New-Item \\Server\Folder\RecentLogin.txt
$var_date = Get-Date
Set-Content \\Server\Folder\RecentLogin.txt "$var_date"