mapped drives not reconnecting correctly

15 Jun 2005 4:52 PM

Kayton

I have a mapped network drive that is set to reconnect during logon. When I
try to manually reconnect I notice that windows is trying to use an incorrect
login to access the mapped drive.

For example, when I mapped the network drive, I set the login to be
Administrator/Password. However, after restarting my machine, the mapped
drive does not reconnect and when I check the logon settings, I see that the
login values have been changed to \\Satchel\Administrator/Password. Satchel
is the name of the computer and should not be prepended to the login name.
Is there any way to ensure that the login name stays the same and does not
add in the name of the computer?

18 Jun 2005 5:51 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In news:10C54F8C-0B4F-4052-9D95-6079C30F509D@microsoft.com,

Kayton <Kay***@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> I have a mapped network drive that is set to reconnect during logon.
> When I try to manually reconnect I notice that windows is trying to
> use an incorrect login to access the mapped drive.
>
> For example, when I mapped the network drive, I set the login to be
> Administrator/Password. However, after restarting my machine, the
> mapped drive does not reconnect and when I check the logon settings,
> I see that the login values have been changed to
> \\Satchel\Administrator/Password. Satchel is the name of the
> computer and should not be prepended to the login name. Is there any
> way to ensure that the login name stays the same and does not add in
> the name of the computer?

I doubt you're really seeing the \\ in there, right? Typo?
There's no reason that computer\username should fail in general.
Personally, I like to set up a simple batch file "login script" to run at
startup -

net use x: \\computer\share /user:computer\username password
/persistent:no