Network drives not available on reboot

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Jim

I recently purchased a new laptop with Windows XP Home
edition and successfully connected it to my home network
consisting of one hardwired desktop machine running XP
Pro and 2 other satellite laptops running Windows 98. It
works perfectly fine - all machines can see each other
and connect to the 'Net and to each other through my
router. The problem is that the new machine (XP Home
edition), upon start up or reboot, will not automatically
connect 2 network drives that I have mapped to it. The
drives physically reside on the hardwired machine and do
not require a password. When I restart the new machine,
I need to go to My Computer where I see the network
drives have red "X"s. I double click on each and they
connect fine. Everything works until I reboot and have
to do the same thing.

How can I fix this?

Thank you,
Jim
 
Jim, Hi, has anyone replied to your problem yet? I'm having the same problem and have been searching and searching with no answer. the odd part is all our new computers are XP pro and I have 4 xp pro computers that were purchased a 1 1/2 ago. The 4 older computers have no problems with network drives and seeing them on reboot or if one was knocked out then reinstated they see that computer. The new ones won't even to that. I have to do the same thing you do everytime we reboot. it's sooo frustrating. I hope someone sees our pleas and helps.
 
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