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Marvin Merrill

January 10th 04, 10:32 AM

I have 4 XP home computer connected to a Win2k server.
The server have a shared folder and 2 shared DVD drives.
I added users on the server that correpondes to the users
on the 4 XP home computer. The XP home computer maps to
the server with no problem. This is the problem: When I
reboot the XP Home computers, the network drives are not
connected. When I go in My Computer, all the mapped
network drives are disconneted. By double cliking on the
disconneted drives, the drives connect. I would like the
mapped drives reconnect upon boot up. Thanks for any help

Star Fleet Admiral Q

January 10th 04, 10:33 AM

Since its XP Home, you'll need to write a windows login script to remap the
drives each time they are present - that's the downside of XP Home and
networks - it can access them and use shared resources, it just can't join
them or make drive mappings permanent.

"Marvin Merrill" > wrote in message
...
> I have 4 XP home computer connected to a Win2k server.
> The server have a shared folder and 2 shared DVD drives.
> I added users on the server that correpondes to the users
> on the 4 XP home computer. The XP home computer maps to
> the server with no problem. This is the problem: When I
> reboot the XP Home computers, the network drives are not
> connected. When I go in My Computer, all the mapped
> network drives are disconneted. By double cliking on the
> disconneted drives, the drives connect. I would like the
> mapped drives reconnect upon boot up. Thanks for any help

Marvin Merrill

January 10th 04, 10:34 AM

I need an example script to go by. Once the script is
wriiten I will create a .bat file and put in startup
>-----Original Message-----
>Since its XP Home, you'll need to write a windows login
script to remap the
>drives each time they are present - that's the downside
of XP Home and
>networks - it can access them and use shared resources,
it just can't join
>them or make drive mappings permanent.
>
>"Marvin Merrill" > wrote in
message
...
>> I have 4 XP home computer connected to a Win2k server.
>> The server have a shared folder and 2 shared DVD
drives.
>> I added users on the server that correpondes to the
users
>> on the 4 XP home computer. The XP home computer maps
to
>> the server with no problem. This is the problem: When
I
>> reboot the XP Home computers, the network drives are
not
>> connected. When I go in My Computer, all the mapped
>> network drives are disconneted. By double cliking on
the
>> disconneted drives, the drives connect. I would like
the
>> mapped drives reconnect upon boot up. Thanks for any
help
>
>
>.
>

Robert Hoyt

January 10th 04, 10:44 AM

This does not seem to hold true on my system. My problem
is that 1 user reconnects unfailingly and another user
fails always.

I have a customer that now has an XP Home box. It has been
added to an existing network consisting of:

1 - Win 2000 Professional - Acting as file server
\\pos-server\D
3 - Win 98se - Point of Sale terminals.
1 - Win 98se - Back Office Workstation.

I have added the XP unit and have it functioning on the
network with one small problem.

There are 2 users allowed on the XP unit. The owner and
myself. If I login, using my login password the network
drives re-connect automatically. If I use the owners login
the network drives fail to re-connect and I have to browse
to the server and re-enter the share user name and
password. [This been setup as GUEST with a password of 1]

I have disconnected the network drive and re-mapped
{several times} making sure that the re-connect on login
box is checked. I have even tried the "connect using a
different user and password" choice all to no avail.

One thing that I have noticed is that my login id and
password are the same on both units [XP and 2000]. The
owners are not.

In addition, I have noticed when I browse using the owners
login and go to the POS-SERVER there are no shared drives
listed. I have to use the explorer and OPEN the POS-SERVER
and supply the user name and password to see the shared D
drive and shared Data directories. I have tried changing
the XP login name on my profile to the owner and changing
to his password and the "problem" followed. {If this comes
down to a resolution of having the user id and password
identical on the XP unit and the 2000 unit WHY}

I have my customer limping along using the explorer browse
and login "FIX" for now, but would like to resolve this issue.

Thank you for your valuable time in advance.

Robert (Bob) Hoyt

If I have not made myself clear please feel free to call me
at 317-407-6897 and I'll try to do better.

>-----Original Message-----
>Since its XP Home, you'll need to write a windows login
script to remap the
>drives each time they are present - that's the downside of
XP Home and
>networks - it can access them and use shared resources, it
just can't join
>them or make drive mappings permanent.
>
>"Marvin Merrill" > wrote in message
...
>> I have 4 XP home computer connected to a Win2k server.
>> The server have a shared folder and 2 shared DVD drives.
>> I added users on the server that correpondes to the users
>> on the 4 XP home computer. The XP home computer maps to
>> the server with no problem. This is the problem: When I
>> reboot the XP Home computers, the network drives are not
>> connected. When I go in My Computer, all the mapped
>> network drives are disconneted. By double cliking on the
>> disconneted drives, the drives connect. I would like the
>> mapped drives reconnect upon boot up. Thanks for any help
>
>
>.
>

JackTinSD

February 6th 04, 08:45 AM