An error occurred while reconnecting...The local device name is already in use. The connection has not been restored.

Hi, 
So I have 2 PC's and I sign with the same credentials. I have a hard drive which I decided to share. In the setting I created permissions for the user credentials of both vcomputers and have full control access.
Basically, everytime I open my laptop after and it wakes up and try to connect to the network drive, I get the error
An error occurred while reconnecting...The local device name is already in use. The connection has not been restored.
I need to stay disconnecting all drives and reconnecting them. WHen I restart my PC the network drives restore perfectly. I don't understand why it doesnt work on wake.
Any ideas?

It seems that when a machine goes into sleep, the network connection is disconnected, naturally, but the  machine still has the connection mapped. If  you run the 'net use' you will see the connection. When you try to reconnect it, it sees the
connection and gives you the error.
I do not know if you can directly modify this behavior. However, as a work around, you could build a simple script like:
net use 'connection' /delete ( write it into a text file and save it has a .bat file.)
Use scheduled tasks to have the script run right before the machine goes into sleep. You can do so by setting the task to RUN ON Event: event 42 for the KERNEL_POWER source.
You can see http://superuser.com/questions/679195/run-a-script-when-hibernating-windows-8 for more info .

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