XP Bubble Could Not Connect All Network Drives

[Guest]

In Windows 2000, a persistent drive mapping to a standalone server would
cause a dialog box to popup on reboot that said "Please enter a user name and
password to reconnect this network drive." Fine! Good! In XP you don't get
the dialog box, you get a momentary popup bubble in the task manager that
says"Could not reconnect all Network Drives." What good is this??? Now users
have to go to Start, "My Computer" and hunt for unconnected network drives
(which don't have a red x by the way!) try to open each drive and type in a
user name and password. I can't believe no one else is complaining about
this problem. Instead of booting a computer and supplying passwords for
resources, users are now clicking through a time consuming series of windows.

 

[Guest]

This network of 20,000 users and over 125 servers. some in Active Directory,
some in DMZ's, was designed back in Win 2000 days when network drive mappings
to stand-alone servers resulted in a popup box that clearly asked users to
supply a user name and password for each resource accessed. Accounts in
Active Directory have to change passwords every 90 days, but this can't be
replicated to stand alone servers. Users can't change their passwords on
standalone servers anyway, as they don't actually logon to the server. We
WANT users to be prompted to supply user names and passwords to access these
very secure boxes! But XP users simply get an unhelpful Mac-like bubble, not
the good old pop up asking for user names and passwords. As usual, Microsoft
fixed something that worked fine, by making it worse in the new release.
Thanks for your reply!
Curtis Hotzinger
MCSE