be interested in a look at the fixdrives.bat layout. Have no home boxes in shop currently but next time I have one will check it out. Never had a XP box give me that log on message when the mapped drives are offline ( other then a popup from the tray ) W2K did this and WIn98. thanks fp
At 08:22 PM 7/26/2007, Tharin Olsen Poked the stick with: >I think the mapping method from My Computer that allows you to save the >name/password is present in XP Home as well as XP Professional. > >One problem with the "reconnect at logon" (persistent drive maps) option is if >the host system with the shared folders is offline Windows will show an error >box on logon that indicates the path wasnt accessible and something like an >ok/cancel choice to delete the mapped drive. The user unknowingly deletes the >drive map and then they cant get in at all until the mapped drive is >recreated. If you use a logon script with the net use command it will always >map the drive at startup and its harder for the end user to mess up something >that couldn't be fixed by a reboot. If you'd rather not run the command at >startup you could just make a batch file to run the command. Since I do work >at a lot of small offices that are just peer-to-peer its common that these >sort of quirks will occur. I will type the commands into notepad and save it >as FixDrives.bat in the %systemroot% folder of each workstation. Next time the >phone rings and I'm troubleshooting I can tell them to enter "fixdrive! s" in Run or at a command prompt. > >-Tharin O. > >FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >any idea if this works in XP Home ? > >Have never had a problem with pro, seems there is always the little check box >to remember which is NOT on home machines. I have had to do the same user/pw >on customer boxen to keep them all on their networks and figure there has to >be a way to have home remember. Some obscure tool that is not there. > >Thanks > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Without my ignorance, your knowledge would be meaningless
