boot problem with mapped drives

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I have a W2000 SP4 machine on a peer to peer network, connected by wireless
card. there are 2 mapped drives to another machine.

When turned on the boot stops with a message unable to connect to a netwrork
drive, do you want to connect next time? I say yes and it boots OK, then I
execute a batch file that connects to the other machine (there is a
password) and all is fine.

However it is very annoying that the boot stops and will only complete with
manual intervention. The problem is that the wireless card is not
initialised early enough so when Windows tries to connect during boot the
network is not available. so I ask:

1. Is it possible to change the boot order so the network connections are
not made until after the wireless card is enabled? if not,
2. Is it possible to get windows to automatically select option to continue
the boot and keep the mapped drives avalable for the future? if not
3. If I creat a batch file with a line like "NET USE Z:
\\netcomputer\myfolder" and put it in the users stratup folder will it
execute after the wireless card is enabled and how do I automatically delete
the map when the user closes down so the unwanted message that it can't
connect does not show up.


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