Mapped drives...

[Mike]

I've got a client with a small office with a couple of Vista machines, one
Home Basic & the other Home Premium.
The Home basic (Emachine desktop, 2.3GHz Dual Core & 2GB of RAM) is running
a multi-user version of Quickbooks 2009.
The Home Premium (Acer laptop, 2GHz Dual Core & 2GB RAM) is accessing the
company file over the network.
I'm sharing the folder on the desktop & have a mapped drive on the laptop,
but everytime laptop is restarted, it 'cannot connect all network drives',
even though I have the 'reconnect at log on' box checked.
Both of them are in the same workgroup - is there a way I can get drive to
connect everytime?
I can double-click & enter the username & password, but I'd like it to be as
automated as possible.
Just for the record, I had no hand in the initial computer purchases, I just
got a call to 'set up Quickbooks on a new computer'!
Thanks-

 

[Not Even Me]

in many cases, when you map the drive, if you select login as a different
user, then type in the desired username/password and check reconnect at
logon, it works.
just mapping it while logged onto the desired profile doesn't usually work.

 

[Mike]

Yes, I did chose 'log in as a different user' & it still is disconnected on
startup & user has to log in with that name & password to connect.

 

[+Bob+]

Yes, I did chose 'log in as a different user' & it still is disconnected on
startup & user has to log in with that name & password to connect.

IME, you have to have a matching user account on the "server" in order
for it to reconnect automatically. So, if you log in to the client
with a username of "Rex" with a password of "password", you need to
have an account on the server with a username of "Rex" with a password
of "password".

I don't do any peer to peer networking, it's all peer to server, but I
imagine Vista would pass the credentials in the same way for both -
when you log in, the log in user's credentials are passed to the other
system for authentication. If there's no match, the drive does not
hook up.

 

[Mike]

IME, you have to have a matching user account on the "server" in order
for it to reconnect automatically. So, if you log in to the client
with a username of "Rex" with a password of "password", you need to
have an account on the server with a username of "Rex" with a password
of "password".

I don't do any peer to peer networking, it's all peer to server, but I
imagine Vista would pass the credentials in the same way for both -
when you log in, the log in user's credentials are passed to the other
system for authentication. If there's no match, the drive does not
hook up.

Yeah, I thought of that, & may try, but I can forsee the paniced phone call
when someone logs on to the desktop with the wrong username & nothing is
like they are used to!