map a drive, log out, in , drive disconnected

[Guest chasgl]

I have two XP machines one is a domain machine one is a workgroup machine.

When I map a drive from one to the other and check "reconnect at logon" and

restart the drive is disconnected. It still shows up on the machine but I

have to connect and give the password again to get it to work. Since I want

things to happen automatically at login this is too late. This happens even

if I connect as another user using the login for the host machine. I tried

creating a user account on the domain machine for the workgroup machine but I

couldn't.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chas

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: map a drive, log out, in , drive disconnected

 

chasgl wrote:

> I have two XP machines one is a domain machine one is a workgroup

> machine. When I map a drive from one to the other and check

> "reconnect at logon" and restart the drive is disconnected. It

> still shows up on the machine but I have to connect and give the

> password again to get it to work. Since I want things to happen

> automatically at login this is too late. This happens even if I

> connect as another user using the login for the host machine. I

> tried creating a user account on the domain machine for the

> workgroup machine but I couldn't.

> Any suggestions?

 

Run a startup script when you logon instead of trying to persistently map

things...

 

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[Guest The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

Re: map a drive, log out, in , drive disconnected

 

chasgl wrote:

> I have two XP machines one is a domain machine one is a workgroup machine.

> When I map a drive from one to the other and check "reconnect at logon" and

> restart the drive is disconnected. It still shows up on the machine but I

> have to connect and give the password again to get it to work. Since I want

> things to happen automatically at login this is too late. This happens even

> if I connect as another user using the login for the host machine. I tried

> creating a user account on the domain machine for the workgroup machine but I

> couldn't.

> Any suggestions?

> Thanks,

> Chas

 

Need more info, are you on a domain or in a workgroup? When you log

into windows, is the mapped drive always disconnected, or does it happen

only sporadically? When you map the network drive, are you checking the

'reconnect at login' checkbox?

 

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