Mapped drive will not re-connect at logon

S

Saucer Man

I have a PC in a workgroup. I am trying to map a drive to a share in the
domain. The drive maps using either Windows Explorer or Net Use but it will
not reconnect at logon. I have to re-enter the domain password for the
share. Any ideas?
 
M

Malke

Saucer said:
I have a PC in a workgroup. I am trying to map a drive to a share in the
domain. The drive maps using either Windows Explorer or Net Use but it
will
not reconnect at logon. I have to re-enter the domain password for the
share. Any ideas?

Is the PC in question a member of the domain? Or is it running XP Home? If
the latter, XP Home cannot join a domain and while it can use domain
resources, it can't cache passwords. So the behavior is as expected if you
have XP Home. Either upgrade that box to Pro or create a shortcut to the
share on the server instead of mapping a drive.

The above is a guess on my part since you didn't provide specifics.
Obviously if I've guessed wrong, please do post back and include the
missing information.

Malke
 
S

Saucer Man

The PC in question is XP Pro but is not a member of the domain. It is a
workgroup box only. I have a shortcut to the share but it also asks for
credentials every time I re-logon.
 
M

Malke

Saucer said:
The PC in question is XP Pro but is not a member of the domain. It is a
workgroup box only. I have a shortcut to the share but it also asks for
credentials every time I re-logon.

It sounds as though you didn't create a matching user account/password on
the server, then.


Malke
 
S

Saucer Man

The username and password is created in AD. It is a domain account required
to access the share. That account is not created on the XP Pro box in the
workgroup. Are you saying that in addition to the domain account, one needs
to be created seperately on the server where the share is? I would only be
able to create a local account on the server.
 

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