Hi, I have a small issue with my laptop and my pc. I'm running XP on both of them and each one conects to a mapped drive on the other. When created the network drives had the box 'connect at log-on' ticked, but on both machines the drives do not connect at log-on and start disconnected. As soon as I double click them they connect fine (i don't have to enter any login details). Does anyone have an idea why the auto connect doesn't work ? thanks
log on, start up, or logon and start up? When you start the first PC, the network drive that it is connect to isn't up yet, so it won't connect automatically (network resource unavailable) Howevert, that being said, I don't have an answer for why the second won't connect after the first comes up. I have the same setup here at home and have never had a problem with drives not connecting unless it wasn't online at the time.
it doesn't auto connect period. I only have one user account on both machines and neither require a login or password. Once i can get into the my computer folder i can see the drive but it appears disconnected. I double click on it and it connects stright away.
you could try writing a logon script with a pause command in the beginning, something like: net use "driveletter": \\server\folder persistent:no save it as a .bat file and drop it in your startup folder.
