Hi-

I'm running a 10-computer network. Clients have XP Pro, server has 2000
Advanced Server.

We have several folders on the server that all users have access to as
Mapped drives. This setup has been working fine for the past year.

Now, however, we've started a new security policy that forces users to
change their Windows XP passwords every 30 days.

Strangely enough, on some computers, when the user changes their XP
password, they can no longer logon to their mapped drives unless they
manually enter a password. Previously, the password for XP login and
access to mapped drives have been the same. I'm thinking the fact that
the XP login password is now changing is somehow screwing things up.

I've tried everything I can think of to fix this: enter the mapped
drive password once, gain access, logout & log back in...same problem.
I've played with storing network passwords under Control Panel > User
Accounts. That hasn't helped. Have even deleted the mapped drives,
reconfigured them and still get the same results.

Any ideas? BTW, this is only happening on a few computers, so it seems
like there must be some setting I'm missing somewhere.

thanks,
Matt

You run DC or is stand alone server?

Verify if you can see those stations computer account in AD.

Hristo
http://hristo.no-ip.info

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi-
>
> I'm running a 10-computer network. Clients have XP Pro, server has 2000
> Advanced Server.
>
> We have several folders on the server that all users have access to as
> Mapped drives. This setup has been working fine for the past year.
>
> Now, however, we've started a new security policy that forces users to
> change their Windows XP passwords every 30 days.
>
> Strangely enough, on some computers, when the user changes their XP
> password, they can no longer logon to their mapped drives unless they
> manually enter a password. Previously, the password for XP login and
> access to mapped drives have been the same. I'm thinking the fact that
> the XP login password is now changing is somehow screwing things up.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of to fix this: enter the mapped
> drive password once, gain access, logout & log back in...same problem.
> I've played with storing network passwords under Control Panel > User
> Accounts. That hasn't helped. Have even deleted the mapped drives,
> reconfigured them and still get the same results.
>
> Any ideas? BTW, this is only happening on a few computers, so it seems
> like there must be some setting I'm missing somewhere.
>
> thanks,
> Matt
>

My guess here is that the users on the machines in question are logging on
to their local computers rather than the domain. So when they change their
password, it's only changing on their computer. Make sure they log onto the
domain.

...kurt


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi-
>
> I'm running a 10-computer network. Clients have XP Pro, server has 2000
> Advanced Server.
>
> We have several folders on the server that all users have access to as
> Mapped drives. This setup has been working fine for the past year.
>
> Now, however, we've started a new security policy that forces users to
> change their Windows XP passwords every 30 days.
>
> Strangely enough, on some computers, when the user changes their XP
> password, they can no longer logon to their mapped drives unless they
> manually enter a password. Previously, the password for XP login and
> access to mapped drives have been the same. I'm thinking the fact that
> the XP login password is now changing is somehow screwing things up.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of to fix this: enter the mapped
> drive password once, gain access, logout & log back in...same problem.
> I've played with storing network passwords under Control Panel > User
> Accounts. That hasn't helped. Have even deleted the mapped drives,
> reconfigured them and still get the same results.
>
> Any ideas? BTW, this is only happening on a few computers, so it seems
> like there must be some setting I'm missing somewhere.
>
> thanks,
> Matt
>