Network drives

[Alex McFarlane]

Dear all,
I have a small win XP pro peer to peer network at home. I have recently
put in wireless access points to allow 3 laptops (also running XP pro)
to log in from time to time. There are 2 PC's which remain constantly
on. One has 1 drive and 2 folders mapped as drives (E, I, & K) to my
laptop. The other has just one folder mapped as a drive (M) to my
laptop. When my laptop boots up, it connects to drive M with no
difficulty. But when I open explorer and click on the drives with red
crosses underneath they link up OK. How can I get this to occur on logon
automatically, please?
Your help, as usual is much appreciated.
Regards

 

[Pablo]

You didn't detail your exact problem, but it seems you detailed your
workaround, so I'm making assumptions on what your problem is. You wrote:

"The other has just one folder mapped as a drive (M) to my

laptop. When my laptop boots up, it connects to drive M with no
difficulty. But when I open explorer and click on the drives with red
crosses underneath they link up OK. How can I get this to occur on logon
automatically, please?

"
When you map a drive in XP, there's a small check box which specifically
asks if you want to automatically connect at logon, make sure that's checked
when you map the drives. If you don't, I believe that the resource is not
'linked' until it is used.

Hope this helps.