Mapped drives disconnected at log on

[Guest]

To bring this point up again - is there any solution to the problem of mapped
drives with alternative credentials appearing as disconnected at log on?
This is not an autodisconnect issue as they stay connected until the next log
in. The error is Event Id 3019 cannot determine the connection type. The Kb
article 315244 doesn't give a resolution to this. This is a SAMBA server
drive.

 

[Guest]

Well, I found a work around which involved adding a network place with
credentials and then pointing the drive letter to it. This seems a lot like
twisting your arse to sh*t straight, though. Is this some kind of bug?

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

There is a well-established generic problem, of which this may well be
a symptom. When XP boots up, the OS kernel takes a while to
(re)establish its network connections. If a user either has autologon
enabled or manually logs in before this process has finished and has
one or more drives or directories (either on the local system or
elsewhere on the network) mapped to otherwise unused drive letters,
the user logon code may try to set up the mapping before the kernel
network initialisation code has made it possible to do this, resulting
in the mapped drives being reported as disconnected. The problem is in
the logic of the startup code (which was almost certainly designed
this way to make it possible to log in faster) and I know of no
workaround other than waiting at the login screen until all drive
activity has finished before actually logging in.

To bring this point up again - is there any solution to the problem of mapped
drives with alternative credentials appearing as disconnected at log on?
This is not an autodisconnect issue as they stay connected until the next log
in. The error is Event Id 3019 cannot determine the connection type. The Kb
article 315244 doesn't give a resolution to this. This is a SAMBA server
drive.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Guest]

i use windows XP on srv pk2 with samba from Mandrake 10.1
and have no issue for logging in the server or browesing.
so could it be a samba config. issue ?
Just out of Curiosity do you have have the setting in your smb.conf to be
secuty level = user
and have you done these for the samba server
adduser
passwd
smbpasswd –a

Then on windows side when mapping to the full network path check for
reconnect on logon ?

-dysan