Re: Map a drive without having to log in every time.

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:02:23 -0700

How do you go about creating the group policy, and are we
talking for windows 200 PC, or windows XP PC?

>-----Original Message-----
>How about...
>A group policy -- Machine on/off settings...
>Or, a scheduled task that runs on system startup, and
run it with the
>credentials you need.
>
>"David" <recompute@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:a17f01c4348a$823f8a70$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi, I am working on a network that someone else created
>> before me. the machine with the data on it (the
server)
>> is running win 2k, the remote PC is running windows XP.
>> I have mapped the drive of the data we are sharing to
the
>> windows XP machine, but everytime I reboot the windows
>> xp, the drive fails to recconect because a user name
and
>> password is needed to reconnect, so when I do reconnect
>> the drive manually by entering in the Username and
>> Password, everything works fine. What I want to do is
>> for the XP machine to boot to windows and reconnect the
>> mapped drive without having to enter in the logon name
>> and password. Is there a way to change the behavior of
>> the windows 2000 sharing feature to allow this? I
know I
>> have seen it before. Thanks.
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