Gerry Peters

When I first changed to "simple file sharing", my test macro worked just one time. Successfully disconnecting and then connecting a mapped drive. I looked at my settings and saw I had "Gerry Peters" for Login name and password was blank. I switched to use default name and password checked and it failed every time. When I switched back to "Gerry Peters" as the Login name it continud to fail. These are the messages when it fails: Network Disconnect failed Network Connect failed Map failed access to network device was denied A have 2 test macros one involves a simple disconnect and connect of a networked Win98 computer the other test macros has all my mapped drives, which are one XP computer and 2 Win98 computers. I'm doing the testing on an XP computer since that's the one that has the backup software Using a 3rd test macro with an XP computer as the Netwroked drive with "simple file sharing disabled" it still fails with different error messages. Network Disconnect Drive mapped successfully Network Connect failed Map failed The specified drive is already assigned to another network device Any more ideas on getting this to work? I wonder if I should instead use something on the line of Robert's suggestion Start/Run and some command to find the networked computers. He must be real busy, he didn't respond to my email Thanks for all your help Gerry Peters

>> using Windows XP Pro with simple networking disabled.<< I have a a default XP Pro installation with very few tweaks. I did install as "Standard Computer" by hitting F5 (or F6?) during installation. If I recall, I didn't really do anything for establishing Networking between my 4 computers other than set all drives for "sharing" so I'm not sure what you mean by "simple networking disabled". I just share drives and printing and since it's only me, I have no logins or passwords or other users other than me, which I guess would be considered Administrator. >>One thing that I had to do was to enter my login name and password. When I left 'Use Default Name and Password' checked, the connections failed.<< When I boot my computer it goes straight to desktop. When I installed XP, I didn't choose a login password, I just hit "enter", so I wouldn't have a login and password at boot up. So as far as me entering my login name and password, I suppose I really don't have one, but I did try a few like for login name: Administrator, Default User, Gerry Peters and for password with blank or "spacebar". I tried every combination fo those in the "Network Connection" dialog box of Macro Express with fails for both disconnect and connect mapped Network drives "Access denied" was the error message for Network connect. So you have any more clues to getting this to work? What about "simple networking disabled"?

This Network Connection command sure is quirky. I inserted a Network Disconnect command for each mapped drive at the begiinning of my macro and when I ran the macro, every disconnect command failed with an error message. Then every Network Connect command failed after that. I then opened "my Computer" and selected the D drive of each networked computer and hit enter, which opens a window and establishes a connection to that drive. I then ran my macro again and the only drives that successfully disconnected this time were the D drives that I selected in My Computer. All the other ones failed to disconnect. Then every Network Connect command failed after that including those D drives. In your example you listed: Network Disconnect: M: Network Connect: M: to \\server-xyz\htdocs Network Disconnect: N: Network Connect: N: to \\server-xyz\In Network Disconnect: O: Network Connect: O: to \\server-xyz\inout Network Disconnect: P: Network Connect: P: to \\server-xyz\private In my macro I started it with disconnects for each mapped drive and then followed that by connects with the mapped drives. I'm not sure whether that would make any difference. I also have been checking the box "display connection status". A long time ago I set up mapped drives using Windows Explorer and so every time the computer starts those mapped drives show up in Explorer even if the computers aren't turned on. I wonder if my problems are due to setting up the mapped drives in Windows Explorer instead of using "make connection permanent".check box. Would that make any difference? If I were using Win98 I wouldn't be having this problem, I'm not sure why the defaults for XP networking have this limitation. It seems you've done this Network connect and disconnect successfully. Are you using XP? Any further suggestions? GP

Thanks Kevin. I added the Network Connection command to my macro. I used that command for all of my 10 mapped drives. In other words 10 entries in the Scripting Editor, one for each drive. When I executed the command I got an error message "failed" saying that drive was already mapped. I have drives already mapped and the macro simply tried to remap them. In the network Connection dialog box I first selected the drive letter to be mapped, then the network path and checked "display connection status". It seems the checkbox that says "list currently mapped drives" doesn't do anything, just gives you a display while filling in the box. Should I check "make connection permanent" and go to Wndows Explorer and disconnect all mapp ed drives andlet macro express connect them at startup or should I use the network Connection command to first disconnect all mapped network drives and then issue a command to connect them?

Thanks Robert. A few questions: >>Start/Run and then type in the server name, //servername/share<< I think you may be on to something, but I can't get it to work. One of my computer's network name is XP1600 and the sharename for the C drive is C. So according to your instructions I chose Start/Run and typed //XP1600/C and then hit enter. I got an error message. Apparently I don't understand your //servername/share >>Also, if you have Remote Connection turned on << how do I turn it on? >> It's a one box input html page that you enter the server name in and press enter. << in my case what would the server name be? Thanks, GP

i've created a macro that automates my backup procedure for 4 computers all on a network. My backup software is on an XP computer. Before I run the backup program I have to open the "My Computer" window and one by one select each mapped networked drive and hit "enter", which opens a separate window and establishes connection to that network drive. I then close that window and go to the next drive and so on. After I've done that for all networked drives drives. I close "My Computer" window and go to the Start button (with a mouse movement) hit home to go to the top of the Start menu and use the arrow key to select a "Shortcut" (which has some command lines) to my backup program This Macro works about half the time. What fouls things up is the inconsistant way "My computer" window operates. After selecting the first networked drive sometimes the selection stays on that drive and other times, the window flickers and the selection moves to another location, usually the top of the window. Win98 didn't require me to manually establish connections to each drive, but XP does. My question: Is there a way to get XP to find all of my mapped networked drives in possibly one command or at least in a consistant predictable way. (I don't start my computers in the same sequence every day). GP

You nailes it. The lowercase d works. I suppose I had caps locked when I created the macro GP

Well this is quite strange. Here's a copy of my simple macro pasted from Direct Editor. <SPEED:00001><TEXTTYPE:<F4>><MSD:0451><TEXTTYPE:<F4>><MSD:1882><TEXTTYPE:<CTRL><F4>><MSD:1401><TEXTTYPE:<CTRL>D> The above macro works Ok until it gets to Control-D, at that point nothing happens. If I make a slight modification in Direct Editor, it works If I replace <TEXTTYPE:<CTRL>D> with Text Type: <CTRL>d or <TEXTTYPE:<CTRL>d> it works It's the after the D that makes it not work. This was recorded using the wizard. i'm a little curious why wizard recorded it wrong or what that means. The program I'm using this macro for is Sonar, an audio recording program. It has key bindings, so I have Control-D assigned to "Save As". What's a little baffling is why the Control-F4 in my example above did work fine, but the Control-D didn't Thanks, Gerry Peters

I'm having trouble recording a CONTROL-D. Using the wizard to record keystrokes (no mouse), it appears like when I hit CONTROL-D, it records it as hitting the CONTROL key and letting it up and then hitting the D. I tried using direct editor to change it to hold control down and it didn't seem to work. I ran into the same problem with ALT F4, which is a common technique to close a window or exit a program. Is there some technique to this, did I not hold the Control key down long enough or something? -- Gerry Peters Midi Magic Studio <http://gprecordingstudio.com> Album Productions and Songwriter Resources