Mapped Drive Won't Connect at Logon

[Dan B]

Hi,

I have some new Dell Computers with XP Pro. There are 2 mapped
drives....one connects to a server on my LAN and the other connects to
another server across a WAN link. The local one connects fine at logon, the
other on the WAN link does not, although the Reconnect at Logon box was
checked. If I go into MY Computer and double click the mapped drive, will
pop up the user name and password box and connect just fine. It will not
connect again after rebooting.

I have Windows 2000 clients with the same drive configurations that work
perfectly....all drives connect at logon.

I have read in the newsgroups of other people having the same problem, but I
have not found a solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Dan

 

[Carrie Garth]

| message | I have some new Dell Computers with XP Pro. There are 2 mapped
| drives....one connects to a server on my LAN and the other connects
| to another server across a WAN link. The local one connects fine at
| logon, the other on the WAN link does not, although the Reconnect at
| Logon box was checked. If I go into MY Computer and double click
| the mapped drive, will pop up the user name and password box and
| connect just fine. It will not connect again after rebooting<SNIP>

Perhaps the problem is related to the Fast Logon Optimization feature.
You may want to enable the Group Policy setting "Always wait for the
network at computer startup and logon" to see if that solves the
problem. For more information see the following Microsoft Knowledge
Base articles:

KB831998 - Mapped network drive shows no drive letter or will not
allow you to create new long-named files or folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;831998

KB304970 - Scripts May Not Run Before Windows Explorer Starts Even
Though the "Run Logon Scripts Synchronously" Setting is Enabled
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;304970

KB305293 - Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon
Optimization Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;305293