Boot comes up with red X on mapped drive

[Denny Sharpe]

This happens on a peer-to-peer and a Server 2003
network. Some of the workstations need a drive letter
mapped to another computer and it is set up and works
okay. But on a reboot, that mapped drive has a big red X
on it and won't work until you open up My Computer and
double click the drive. Then it is okay until reboot.

 

[Kyle Lang [MSFT]]

Take a look at this.

Share-level mapped network drives are not connected after you restart
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;283492

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but no cigar. We have not put passwords on the
shared folders. The site you sent me to talks about
windows 95/98 and we are XP pro, though one of the
folders originally was on a 98 machine. The article also
seems to be only discussing peer-to-peer when one of our
problem networks has the data on a Server 2003 system.
Also, when you double click the drive, it just connects,
not asking for passwords at all.

-----Original Message-----
Take a look at this.

Share-level mapped network drives are not connected after you restart
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN- US;283492

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Kyle Lang [MSFT]
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This happens on a peer-to-peer and a Server 2003
network. Some of the workstations need a drive letter
mapped to another computer and it is set up and works
okay. But on a reboot, that mapped drive has a big red X
on it and won't work until you open up My Computer and
double click the drive. Then it is okay until reboot.

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