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| Thread ID: 14684 | 2002-01-15 21:23:00 | Win XP not connecting to network at logon | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 31373 | 2002-01-15 21:23:00 | I have recently upgraded my PC to Windows XP (Home Edition). We have a small network with Win NT4 on the server. All other clients have Win 98 (as I had previously). Since XP, when I logon (with password) it no longer re-connects to the server hard drives automatically. To reconnect to the server drives I go to 'My Computer' and double-click one of the mapped drives (which shows as 'disconnected network drive'. A logon box appears and I then re-enter the password and the drive re-connects. I then repeat the double-click on each of the other network drives which then connect without requiring a password. How can I get it to automatically re-connect the drives at logon (as it did with Win 98)? | Guest (0) | ||
| 31374 | 2002-01-16 06:49:00 | I'm no networking whizz, but I think if you need a password to gain access to the NT Domain you have to add it to your password list if you want it to log on automatically. You must be logged on as adminstrator and go to Control panel>User Accounts> 'your logon name'>Manage My Network passwords>and then fill in the appropriate details. While you're there it might pay to make a 'password rest disk' in case you forget it. I see you are using home edition, and I'm not sure if it has seperate adminstrator rights, but you will know that. You may have to remap the drives after having done this. I hope I'm on the right track here. May pay to see if anyone else has any thoughts. BC |
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| 31375 | 2002-01-17 00:47:00 | Hi Richard, For my own future reference, can you let me know if this worked and if not, did you get it to work and how? Cheers BC |
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| 31376 | 2002-01-17 01:47:00 | Problem not fixed. When I went to 'Manage My Network Passwords' there were no entries, and it did not seem to be possible to add one. I could not even click on to that screen. I am wondering whether this is a problem with Home Edition as I now see that Microsoft lists 'Designed to work with Microsoft Windows Servers and management solutions' as a feature for the Professional Edition only. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31377 | 2002-01-19 07:46:00 | Are you running NT Server with a domain ? XP Home does not support domains. XP Pro does. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31378 | 2002-01-23 23:53:00 | I have just upgraded my computer to XP Pro and the network logs on fine now. | Guest (0) | ||
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