XP Home - network mapping

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North

I have a small network consisting of WIN 2000, WIN XP Pro
and more recently 3 new machines with Win XP Home. I have
network drive mappings setup on each of the computers to
the network server (Win NT 4.0). All the other computers,
except the XP Home computers, the mappings stay and allow
access to the network drives without having to retype in
the password to the network when they first try to access
the network drive. It is acting like it's not remembering
the users network password. The username and password on
the each computers has the same coresponding username and
password on the fileserver. Is this a XP Home problem?

-North
 
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Bob Willard

North said:
I have a small network consisting of WIN 2000, WIN XP Pro
and more recently 3 new machines with Win XP Home. I have
network drive mappings setup on each of the computers to
the network server (Win NT 4.0). All the other computers,
except the XP Home computers, the mappings stay and allow
access to the network drives without having to retype in
the password to the network when they first try to access
the network drive. It is acting like it's not remembering
the users network password. The username and password on
the each computers has the same coresponding username and
password on the fileserver. Is this a XP Home problem?

-North

Create a .BAT file on the XP PC containing one command for
each mapped drive, like:

Net use X: \\Server\Share /User:Account /persistent:yes Password

Then create a link in the Startup folder to that .BAT file.
 
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Haggis

North said:
I have a small network consisting of WIN 2000, WIN XP Pro
and more recently 3 new machines with Win XP Home. I have
network drive mappings setup on each of the computers to
the network server (Win NT 4.0). All the other computers,
except the XP Home computers, the mappings stay and allow
access to the network drives without having to retype in
the password to the network when they first try to access
the network drive. It is acting like it's not remembering
the users network password. The username and password on
the each computers has the same coresponding username and
password on the fileserver. Is this a XP Home problem?

-North

when creating a drive mapping , choose the "connect using a different user
name" option and type in your user info ...this will keep it connected
 

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