I've not been able to get mapping a drive letter (M) on my Win2Kpro box to the share on my Mac (OS 10.2.5) to survive a reboot. Of course, I'm enabling "reconnect at logon", but when it tries, it seems to insist on trying the default username/password, which the Mac rejects, and then it seems to try the username I specified, but forces me to type the password. This is conjecture at the moment... it could be trying the correct username, and it's failing for some other reason.
When I try to set up the drive letter mapping, it fails unless I use the "Connect using a different user name" option. Even though my username on the Win2k box is "mike", and there's an account on the Mac that matches, it fails. When I click the "Connect using a different user name" option, I'm informed:
"By default, you will connect to the network folder as BEAVZILLA\mike. To connect as another user, enter their username and password below". So, I put in "mike" and the password, and the drive mapping works, EXCEPT... when it tries to reconnect at my next reboot of the Win2k box, it seems to try "BEAVZILLA\mike" instead of just "mike".
I can't create a user account on the Mac to be "BEAVZILLA\mike" because it really goes by the 'short name' which the Mac insists on creating itself to be "beavzillamike".
So I need to find out how to do one of the 3 following things:
-Stop Windows from prefixing my username with the computername (and slash) when trying to map the drive
-Get Windows to only try the exact username/password I specify when I set up the drive mapping and implement "Connect using a different user name".
-Get the Mac to have a user account with a short name of "BEAVZILLA\mike"
When I try to set up the drive letter mapping, it fails unless I use the "Connect using a different user name" option. Even though my username on the Win2k box is "mike", and there's an account on the Mac that matches, it fails. When I click the "Connect using a different user name" option, I'm informed:
"By default, you will connect to the network folder as BEAVZILLA\mike. To connect as another user, enter their username and password below". So, I put in "mike" and the password, and the drive mapping works, EXCEPT... when it tries to reconnect at my next reboot of the Win2k box, it seems to try "BEAVZILLA\mike" instead of just "mike".
I can't create a user account on the Mac to be "BEAVZILLA\mike" because it really goes by the 'short name' which the Mac insists on creating itself to be "beavzillamike".
So I need to find out how to do one of the 3 following things:
-Stop Windows from prefixing my username with the computername (and slash) when trying to map the drive
-Get Windows to only try the exact username/password I specify when I set up the drive mapping and implement "Connect using a different user name".
-Get the Mac to have a user account with a short name of "BEAVZILLA\mike"
is impossible.