Invisible mapped network drives

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From: Rolf (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:21:03 -0700

At our firm we run about 600 workstations, mainly clients connected to Windows 2000 TS, but
lately several run Windows XP Pro workstations. Our problem is that the mapped network drives
(\\server\homedir$\username mapped to o: and so) on seems to be invisible in the Explorerer.
If we specify "o:" and other mapped drives directly in the address bar, the drive is shown as it should.
This strange behaviour happens on Win XP only; 2000, 2000TS and 98 work fine. The drives are mapped in login-scripts with "net use ...". I've poked around Technet, MSDN, Google but no clue.
I thought maybe enabling "open folders in separate process" would work, but no good.

Help, any?

Cheers
Rolf

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