Mapped drives disapear upon re-boot

[willisd]

Hello,

I have a laptop with winxp pro. and when i log on, my network folder, should be mapped to my pc, via user manager. BUt it doesn't appear?
If i try to manually add a mapped network drive (and use "re-connect" at logon), it works fine, and appears in my computer. But when i re-boot the pc, the drive is no longer there. I then have to re-map the drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283492&Product=winxp

You may experience when logging into domains using Windows XP Pro. This is caused by the asyncronous loading of networking during the boot up process. This speeds up the login process in a stand-alone workstation by allowing the user to log in with cached logon credentials before the network is fully ready.

To disable this "feature" and restore your domain logons to normal behavior, open the MMC and add the group policy snap-in. Under Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->System-->Logon, change "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to ENABLED.

This can be fed to clients via a group policy from a Windows 2000 server by upgrading the standard policy template with the XP policy template. Since this is an XP only command, non-XP systems will ignore it in a domain distributed group policy.