Windows XP's windows explorer hanging with dfs drive mappings

[Travis]

Had a call with MS Support for weeks now analysing dumps and procmon results.
All users are windows xp, all have groups, home and shared drives mapped
which are dfs namespaces. Issue is with laptops. When a user connects to
another internet service outside your domain and opens windows explorer -
explorer hangs incessantly requiring you to either disconnect the connection
to the internet or end the explorer task. This is obviously beacuse the
client is trying to connect to a DC and/or namespace server. Any ideas on
how to workaround/fix this? A simple script can remove the mapped drives but
thats a short term arrangement.

[Anthony [MVP]]

Travis,
I guess a solution would be not to map a persistent drive. If your login
script deletes all mapped drives and then creates them, then off the network
the script will not run and the drives will not be mapped.
Another solution is to use My Network Places instead of mapped drives.
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.co.uk

Post by Travis
Had a call with MS Support for weeks now analysing dumps and procmon results.
All users are windows xp, all have groups, home and shared drives mapped
which are dfs namespaces. Issue is with laptops. When a user connects to
another internet service outside your domain and opens windows explorer -
explorer hangs incessantly requiring you to either disconnect the connection
to the internet or end the explorer task. This is obviously beacuse the
client is trying to connect to a DC and/or namespace server. Any ideas on
how to workaround/fix this? A simple script can remove the mapped drives but
thats a short term arrangement.