Mapped drives don't connect....

[Q-Man]

I have a problem. I have an XP client with mapped network
drives to a 2000 server. It will reconnect to the drives
after every restart. But when I add a password to the user
account. The user account won't reconnect the drives
automatically to the server. I take off the password
protection for that user, and then it will reconnect
automatically with a restart. I need to protect the User
account, but I don't want to have to reconnect each drive
everytime I boot. Is the a problem with XP or is there
some way I can fix this? Can anyone help me?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I have a problem. I have an XP client with mapped network
drives to a 2000 server. It will reconnect to the drives
after every restart. But when I add a password to the user
account. The user account won't reconnect the drives
automatically to the server. I take off the password
protection for that user, and then it will reconnect
automatically with a restart. I need to protect the User
account, but I don't want to have to reconnect each drive
everytime I boot. Is the a problem with XP or is there
some way I can fix this? Can anyone help me?

Hi

This might be the cause of it:

Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305293

<quote>
By default in Windows XP Professional, the Fast Logon Optimization feature is
set for both domain and workgroup members. As a result, Windows XP does not
wait
for the network to be fully initialized at startup and logon.
</quote>

To disable this and see if it helps on your problem, try to set the "Always
wait
for the network at computer startup and logon" policy (a negative side effect
is
that it might make the startup/logon to take longer time):

By registry edit; Set the value SyncForegroundPolicy to 1 (REG_DWORD) in this
key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\

Create the necessary keys/value, or put the vbscript below in a .vbs file and
double-click on it.

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sRegValue = "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\" _
& "CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SyncForegroundPolicy"

oShell.RegWrite sRegValue, 1, "REG_DWORD"

MsgBox "Please reboot the computer"


Please post back any results

 

[Q-Man]

I am not sure what you mean. I have the logon script in a
file that I double clicked once and the mapped drives
always connected after that. Where can I find "Always
wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to
change it so that the Optimization feature is turned off?

-----Original Message-----


Hi

This might be the cause of it:

Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN- US;305293

<quote>
By default in Windows XP Professional, the Fast Logon Optimization feature is
set for both domain and workgroup members. As a result, Windows XP does not
wait
for the network to be fully initialized at startup and logon.
</quote>

To disable this and see if it helps on your problem, try to set the "Always
wait
for the network at computer startup and logon" policy (a negative side effect
is
that it might make the startup/logon to take longer time):

By registry edit; Set the value SyncForegroundPolicy to 1 (REG_DWORD) in this
key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\

Create the necessary keys/value, or put the vbscript below in a .vbs file and
double-click on it.

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sRegValue = "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\" _

& "CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SyncForegroundPolicy"

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I am not sure what you mean. I have the logon script in a
file that I double clicked once and the mapped drives
always connected after that. Where can I find "Always
wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to
change it so that the Optimization feature is turned off?

With gpedit.msc I would think.


But instead, just put the following vbscript in a text file with the file
extension .vbs and then run it (double-click on the file):


Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sRegValue = "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\" _
& "CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SyncForegroundPolicy"

oShell.RegWrite sRegValue, 1, "REG_DWORD"
MsgBox "Please reboot the computer"