Lose mapped drive on shutdown

[allisland]

I have a winxp pro machine where I map to a external usb drive on a server (win2000) to verify backups, every time
the winxp machine is shutdown I lose the mapped drive, I have to remap every morning?
To clarify, Server is never shutdown, I can map the drive, then shut my machine down, restart and it's completly gone, it's driving me nuts, any help to retain my sanity.........thanks

 

[DTracy]

When you map the drive you must make it a persistent mapping by either putting a check in the checkbox to reconnect at logon, or if using the comand line, net use x: \\server\share /persistent:yes

Also, I have found that unless you have standard user privledge or higher (administrator), the mapping will not save anyway. So check your user privledge first.

David.