Well, okay. How so how do I 'wake up' the connection? Doing this on the L: drive returns FALSE:

VB.net Code:
  1. Dim letterOnly As String = ConnStr.Substring(0, 2)
  2.         Dim driveExists As Boolean = Directory.Exists(letterOnly & ":") 'Tried both L: and L:\, both show FALSE even though my local machine is mapped to the L drive!