Scott
May 17th 03, 03:00 PM
I too have a DELL with XP home and experiencing the exact
same problem, have you discovered a fix yet? If I find
one first I will let you know.
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently added a Dell system running XP Pro to my home
>network, consisting of a Win 2K Pro box and a Win 2K
>server. The server supports a few fault-tolerant shared
>volumes that the other two machines map onto. The new
XP
>box won't automatically log on to the shared volumes
when
>it boots up (the Win 2K Pro system, however, does).
Even
>though I check the "Reconnect at logon" box when
>establishing the mapping, and enter the user name and
>password for the shared volumes, as soon as I reboot, XP
>says it was unable to reconnect some shared drives, and
>when I touch them in Windows Explorer, I get the logon
>prompt with the correct user name filled in but the
>password is missing. If I enter the password, then the
>drive gets reconnected. What a pain!! Any ideas what's
>wrong with XP Pro?
>.
>
same problem, have you discovered a fix yet? If I find
one first I will let you know.
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently added a Dell system running XP Pro to my home
>network, consisting of a Win 2K Pro box and a Win 2K
>server. The server supports a few fault-tolerant shared
>volumes that the other two machines map onto. The new
XP
>box won't automatically log on to the shared volumes
when
>it boots up (the Win 2K Pro system, however, does).
Even
>though I check the "Reconnect at logon" box when
>establishing the mapping, and enter the user name and
>password for the shared volumes, as soon as I reboot, XP
>says it was unable to reconnect some shared drives, and
>when I touch them in Windows Explorer, I get the logon
>prompt with the correct user name filled in but the
>password is missing. If I enter the password, then the
>drive gets reconnected. What a pain!! Any ideas what's
>wrong with XP Pro?
>.
>