Guest nevets2001uk Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 In a workground environment we have a shared drive on a Server which is used to store backups of user PST files. Each user has access to a directory under this folder such as 'asmith' We have created a mapping on the clients to their folder as R: and set it to reconnect at login. They must use a unique username and password to connect the mapping. This all works however at startup Windows XP does not prompt the user to enter the password unless they click on the R: drive to try to connect. In Windows 2000 the users are prompted after loggin in for the map drive password. We need this to happen in XP as the PFBackup tool fails if they haven't authenticated and connected the mapping. Can this be set somewhere in XP to force the login dialog for the mapping at startup?
Guest Graham Anderson Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 RE: Drive Mapping I think this is the way XP was designed to work - it only prompts for credentials when you try to use the mapped drive. If you're mapping it through Windows Explorer, you could try using the "Connect using a different user name" option in the Map Network Drive dialog. Alternatively, run a login script to map the drive when someone logs in, using something like net use r: \\servername\sharename password /user:username You can do net use ? to get a full list of options. "nevets2001uk" wrote: > In a workground environment we have a shared drive on a Server which is used > to store backups of user PST files. Each user has access to a directory under > this folder such as 'asmith' > > We have created a mapping on the clients to their folder as R: and set it to > reconnect at login. They must use a unique username and password to connect > the mapping. > > This all works however at startup Windows XP does not prompt the user to > enter the password unless they click on the R: drive to try to connect. In > Windows 2000 the users are prompted after loggin in for the map drive > password. We need this to happen in XP as the PFBackup tool fails if they > haven't authenticated and connected the mapping. > > Can this be set somewhere in XP to force the login dialog for the mapping at > startup?
Guest Plato Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Drive Mapping =?Utf-8?B?bmV2ZXRzMjAwMXVr?= wrote: > > In a workground environment we have a shared drive on a Server which is used > to store backups of user PST files. Each user has access to a directory under > this folder such as 'asmith' Networking http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/default.mspx http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsxpnetworking/Windows_XP_Networking_Microsoft_Windows_XP.htm http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936 http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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