Ok, had a chance to look at the files at work and have a clear head
again. The simple fix to get XP Home to remount Samba (or any other
network drives) on reboot is this:
Create a small text file in the users startup directory with a 'net use'
command for each networked drive you are trying to mount:
net use driveletter: \\hostname\sharename /user:domain\username password
Note: "/user:domain" is an option for net use, change driveletter,
hostname, sharename, username & password to the appropriate values, but
NOT /user:domain, that's a literal argument.
Rene
Warner White wrote:
Rene, thank you. I've looked up net use and how to write a batch file
and I think I'll be able to do it.
I'll check on rsync later.
Warner White
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*From:* Rene Churchill <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:11:39 PM
*Subject:* Re: Network without passwords
Warner White wrote:
> I'm having trouble setting up my network again. Two linux machines
and two Windows machines. It used to be that my wife could print from
her XP machine via the network centered on one of my ubuntu desktops.
And I can get her printing working now if first I try reading one of
my linux machine files from her machine and in the process enter the
username and password. But she is computer-challenged (I despair of
trying to teach her that), and we shouldn't have to do it any how.
Are you using XP Home or Pro? XP Home will not remount network drives
correctly on reboot. To get around that, I put a small .bat file in
the startup directory that just runs 'net use' to remount the drives. I'd
have to look at the files at work, I can't remember the 'net use'
syntax off the top of my head.
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