Re: [H] XP Pro asks for password when mapping drive
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
Re: [H] Online FTP sites
I know a lot of people who get Dreamhost accounts and use them for online backup. $9.99/mo for 14gb plus you get your own domain, webspace, email, etc. Winterlight wrote: Anybody try XDrive? It is a online FTP drive, this has been done before, but never 5GB free and 50 GB for 100 a year. Plus it is offered by AOL, which means it won't go away any time soon. I have been uploading by Data backups to my Godaddy hosted site, about 3 zip files of 6 GB , every month. But last week they told me I had a File Repository and made me remove them... which sucks since I have been doing this for 7 years without any problems. Now I am looking for a online FTP account... anybody know anything about these?
Re: [H] XP Pro asks for password when mapping drive
Tharin O., Might I contact you off-List about a problem I have with XP and its' access protocol? Best, Duncan At 23:22 07/26/2007 -0400, you wrote: 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. snip This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
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Look at www.mediamax.com, www.orbitfiles.com and www.mozy.com. Mozy has unlimited storage for $5/month. On 7/26/07, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody try XDrive? It is a online FTP drive, this has been done before, but never 5GB free and 50 GB for 100 a year. Plus it is offered by AOL, which means it won't go away any time soon. I have been uploading by Data backups to my Godaddy hosted site, about 3 zip files of 6 GB , every month. But last week they told me I had a File Repository and made me remove them... which sucks since I have been doing this for 7 years without any problems. Now I am looking for a online FTP account... anybody know anything about these?
Re: [H] XP Pro asks for password when mapping drive
Yes the prompting about deleting the drive maps would occur on Windows 2000/9x. There are still a lot of Windows 2000 machines in my town it seems. An example of a batch file would be something like the following --- Begin FixDrives.bat @echo off rem A message that is displayed while the script is processed. echo Please wait while your network drives are recreated. rem Our first command deletes any existing drive mappings net use * /delete /y rem Next we recreate the shared drives net use p: \\computer1\public PASSWORD /user:USERNAME net use t: \\computer2\finance PASSWORD /user:USERNAME net use z: \\computer3\admin PASSWORD /user:USERNAME END OF FILE real simple, right? =] Most of my batch scripts are something like above, others might be more complex containing goto statements that perform certain actions based on certain conditions. FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 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
