Mapped drives...

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Mike

I've got a client with a small office with a couple of Vista machines, one
Home Basic & the other Home Premium.
The Home basic (Emachine desktop, 2.3GHz Dual Core & 2GB of RAM) is running
a multi-user version of Quickbooks 2009.
The Home Premium (Acer laptop, 2GHz Dual Core & 2GB RAM) is accessing the
company file over the network.
I'm sharing the folder on the desktop & have a mapped drive on the laptop,
but everytime laptop is restarted, it 'cannot connect all network drives',
even though I have the 'reconnect at log on' box checked.
Both of them are in the same workgroup - is there a way I can get drive to
connect everytime?
I can double-click & enter the username & password, but I'd like it to be as
automated as possible.
Just for the record, I had no hand in the initial computer purchases, I just
got a call to 'set up Quickbooks on a new computer'!
Thanks-
 
in many cases, when you map the drive, if you select login as a different
user, then type in the desired username/password and check reconnect at
logon, it works.
just mapping it while logged onto the desired profile doesn't usually work.
 
Yes, I did chose 'log in as a different user' & it still is disconnected on
startup & user has to log in with that name & password to connect.
 
Yes, I did chose 'log in as a different user' & it still is disconnected on
startup & user has to log in with that name & password to connect.
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IME, you have to have a matching user account on the "server" in order
for it to reconnect automatically. So, if you log in to the client
with a username of "Rex" with a password of "password", you need to
have an account on the server with a username of "Rex" with a password
of "password".

I don't do any peer to peer networking, it's all peer to server, but I
imagine Vista would pass the credentials in the same way for both -
when you log in, the log in user's credentials are passed to the other
system for authentication. If there's no match, the drive does not
hook up.
 
+Bob+ said:
IME, you have to have a matching user account on the "server" in order
for it to reconnect automatically. So, if you log in to the client
with a username of "Rex" with a password of "password", you need to
have an account on the server with a username of "Rex" with a password
of "password".

I don't do any peer to peer networking, it's all peer to server, but I
imagine Vista would pass the credentials in the same way for both -
when you log in, the log in user's credentials are passed to the other
system for authentication. If there's no match, the drive does not
hook up.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I thought of that, & may try, but I can forsee the paniced phone call
when someone logs on to the desktop with the wrong username & nothing is
like they are used to!
 
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