XP Login Issue with Shared Drive

July 22, 2008

Have workstation with XP SP2 installed. When a non-admin users power's up

the machine from cold-start and attempts to login, the file share is not

accessible - getting "\\FileServ\Users\<username>\<folder> is not accessible.

You may not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.

Network path was not found."

Basically, person has permission on the \\FileServ\ server.

From the \\FileServ\Users\<username>\PCDesktop - there is a subfolder that

is used to populate the desktop icons for user. It's way we handle this for

agency and has no issue for over 200 users. I can login this person on

another workstation without issue, i.e., from Cold-Start the boot sequence is

proper and the desktop is populated from \\FileServ\...\PCDesktop.

But for this workstation, during the COLD-START cycle of power / this path is

not accessible during the startup process / not sure why. But AFTER the

login, if I Right Click and REFRESH my desktop - it's available than.

Again, getting the error message in earlier post [when recycle power].

ALSO, this only occurs for non-admin users. What should I look for with

this workstation - to see why it doesn't complete Cold+Boot login process

here / but on another identical workstation it does. Are there registry keys

I can check - is there a reinstall of network resource required etc... [i'm

not showing ANY network issues for Admin though - and if I Cold+Boot for

Admin, than logoff, login - not issue] - just when I Cold+Boot for

<non-admin> user on this machine it gives the message above.

Help - ASAP please

July 22, 2008

RE: XP Login Issue with Shared Drive

Any change I can get some help here!

"DavidS" wrote:

> Have workstation with XP SP2 installed. When a non-admin users power's up

> the machine from cold-start and attempts to login, the file share is not

> accessible - getting "\\FileServ\Users\<username>\<folder> is not accessible.

> You may not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.

> Network path was not found."

>

> Basically, person has permission on the \\FileServ\ server.

>

> From the \\FileServ\Users\<username>\PCDesktop - there is a subfolder that

> is used to populate the desktop icons for user. It's way we handle this for

> agency and has no issue for over 200 users. I can login this person on

> another workstation without issue, i.e., from Cold-Start the boot sequence is

> proper and the desktop is populated from \\FileServ\...\PCDesktop.

>

> But for this workstation, during the COLD-START cycle of power / this path is

> not accessible during the startup process / not sure why. But AFTER the

> login, if I Right Click and REFRESH my desktop - it's available than.

>

> Again, getting the error message in earlier post [when recycle power].

> ALSO, this only occurs for non-admin users. What should I look for with

> this workstation - to see why it doesn't complete Cold+Boot login process

> here / but on another identical workstation it does. Are there registry keys

> I can check - is there a reinstall of network resource required etc... [i'm

> not showing ANY network issues for Admin though - and if I Cold+Boot for

> Admin, than logoff, login - not issue] - just when I Cold+Boot for

> <non-admin> user on this machine it gives the message above.

>

> Help - ASAP please

>

July 22, 2008

Re: XP Login Issue with Shared Drive

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:07:12 -0700, DavidS

<DavidS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Any change I can get some help here!

Patience, please. This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just

Windows XP users here, helping each other if and when we can. We are

not Microsoft employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP"

behind our names; that's an honorary title for having provided

consistently helpful advice) except for an occasional employee who

posts here unofficially on his own time.

If you don't get an answer, it can be for a variety of reasons: you

may have asked your question poorly and nobody understood, nobody may

know the answer, the person who knows the answer may have missed your

question, and so on.

Or the person who knows the answer (not me, in this case) hasn't seen

your message yet.

> "DavidS" wrote:

>

> > Have workstation with XP SP2 installed. When a non-admin users power's up

> > the machine from cold-start and attempts to login, the file share is not

> > accessible - getting "\\FileServ\Users\<username>\<folder> is not accessible.

> > You may not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.

> > Network path was not found."

> >

> > Basically, person has permission on the \\FileServ\ server.

> >

> > From the \\FileServ\Users\<username>\PCDesktop - there is a subfolder that

> > is used to populate the desktop icons for user. It's way we handle this for

> > agency and has no issue for over 200 users. I can login this person on

> > another workstation without issue, i.e., from Cold-Start the boot sequence is

> > proper and the desktop is populated from \\FileServ\...\PCDesktop.

> >

> > But for this workstation, during the COLD-START cycle of power / this path is

> > not accessible during the startup process / not sure why. But AFTER the

> > login, if I Right Click and REFRESH my desktop - it's available than.

> >

> > Again, getting the error message in earlier post [when recycle power].

> > ALSO, this only occurs for non-admin users. What should I look for with

> > this workstation - to see why it doesn't complete Cold+Boot login process

> > here / but on another identical workstation it does. Are there registry keys

> > I can check - is there a reinstall of network resource required etc... [i'm

> > not showing ANY network issues for Admin though - and if I Cold+Boot for

> > Admin, than logoff, login - not issue] - just when I Cold+Boot for

> > <non-admin> user on this machine it gives the message above.

> >

> > Help - ASAP please

> >

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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July 23, 2008

RE: XP Login Issue with Shared Drive

Anything not clear in my request.

Anyone out there that can answer this?