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by jtday_1

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I am running a small network of machines with the main file server running Windows 2000 Pro and the others running XP Home. I have programs that run on the "client" terminals that look back to the 2000 machine for their database. I am using static IP addresses. I have mapped network drives set up for the XP machines to access the database on the host computer. When an XP machine is rebooted it does not re-establish the network drive connection. You can active the drive again but you have to put in a username and password to do so. I have checked the user accounts on all machines and they seem to be set up correctly. Any ideas on how to get rid of the user log on when re-establishing this connection?

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by timwalsh

I'm going to make 2 assumptions first:
1. All users needing to access the shared drive have user accounts on the Win2K machine.
2. All machines are members of the SAME workgroup.

Are the user credentials needed to reconnect the shared drive the same as those used to log-on to Windows? If not, therein lies your problem.

You can map a shared drive using a different set of user credentials by choosing the "Connect using a different user name" option. However these credentials are not maintained, and must be resupplied every time the share is reconnected.

The easy way around this is to make the user accounts on the Win2K machine use the exact same userID and passwords as used to log-on to the local machines.

Hope this helps.

by wlbowers

Xp home has designed in limitations on a network. Microsoft did this on purpose hence the name XP Home. This might be part of your problem.

Good Luck Lee

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