Windows 7: mapped drive disappears after log out

When a user account is logged off, the mapped network drive icon disappears and the connection to the network share is lost. The share can be accessed by entering in the full path to the share in the address bar of explorer. The drive can be remapped and it will function properly until the account is logged off.

I may be missing something here, but that is completely normal. Once you log off, you log off, all your mapped drives will disconnect and applications will close too. ?? Am I missing something?

The mapped drive does not reconnect when the user logs back in. The (Reconnect at logon) checkbox is checked. I need the drive to be mapped when the user logs back into their account.

See here (maybe)...Mapped Drives not Connecting

Open a Command Prompt as the user that the drives are not being remembered. Do not use the "Run as Administrator". In this case we don't want to do that.

At the Command Prompt type:

Does it say something like this:

If it says they "will not be remembered", then you need to change that.

type:

That will change the system setting for the user to make the drives remembered all the time and will be the default action.

If the above is not the case then map the drive through the Command Prompt and see if the mapping is remembered.

You may change the drive letter R: above to any free letter you wish. However remember that if you use a letter that is too close to the beginning of the alphabet you may overlap with USB devices and then one or the other will be missing. You can replace the R: with * and it will start with the next free drive letter starting at the bottom of the alphabet.

That should make the drive be remembered through log off and reboot. -WS

Thanks to all the people replying. I will try these suggestions today at work and respond with the conclusions.

Thanks to everyone for the help. I'm not sure what fixed the issue but the mapped drives stay connected after logging off now. I also created a "Network Location" folder that works about the same. The problem now is that when the laptop is removed from the docking station the screen is locked. While the laptop is off the docking station the user can attempt to login but it will not allow her. After she puts the laptop back on the docking station she can log in again. Thanks in advance for the help.

Hummm, you may want to start a new thread on the docking, so we can get some more help. I can't think of anything right off, I don't use docking stations much. We use port replicators which are different. -WS

None of the above worked for me. However, what did work was saving my credentials in the "Credential Manager" in the Control Panel. I entered these for each different server and it seems to have solved the issue.