One of the people whose PCs I help to maintain has three XP machines, and he shares the drives of each, over his internal network, with each of the other machines.
Although the shares are set to reconnect at boot-up, the machines, of course, are never started up exactly simultaneously, so only the last machine booted actually manages to reconnect all the shares it wants, while the others just report some of the shares as disconnected.
Is there a way (maybe a setting, maybe a separate program, whatever) to make it so that ALL THREE machines properly reconnect to ALL of the respective shares upon reboot?
The only thing I could guess is, perhaps, to set each one to delay the attempts at reconnection, giving each machine time to come online, or to have each periodically re-attempt the reconnection, so that all the connections would (eventually) come up, even if one or more of the machines were booted much later. Sounds good, but I’m a UNIX person, and have no idea how this could be done under XP, nor if it’s even possible.
Thanks!
