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Mapped network drive not auto reconnecting at startup

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HDTVNZ

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Hi all, I am running Vista Ultimate and have mapped a network drive which is on my file server (running Ubuntu 7.04). Vista maps it without any problems, but when I restart the computer, the message "could not reconnect all network drives" appears and find that I have to type the login name & password again. I have the Reconnect at logon box selected (as shown in screenshot below), so why is it not auto logging on?

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Windows won't remap the drives automatically if they require you to put in an ID and password. I'd make a simple batch file that maps it using the NET USE command every time you boot up.

Using Notepad, make a file that says:

net use <drive letter>: "\\<server>\<path>" <password> /USER:"<user>"

So an example would be:
net use J: "\\data\my documents" mypass /USER:"data\userid"

Then just add that to the Startup group so it runs every time you login.
 
Yeah. You'll get automatic authentication if you're logging into an Active Direcotry Domain Controller, but in the case of an Ubuntu server, you are going to have to authenticate somehow.
 
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Windows won't remap the drives automatically if they require you to put in an ID and password. I'd make a simple batch file that maps it using the NET USE command every time you boot up.

Using Notepad, make a file that says:

net use <drive letter>: "\\<server>\<path>" <password> /USER:"<user>"

So an example would be:
net use J: "\\data\my documents" mypass /USER:"data\userid"

Then just add that to the Startup group so it runs every time you login.
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I've created a .txt document, with this information in it, but it just opens the document up at login. Is there anything else I need to edit to get it to auto map the drive?

 
Originally posted by: HDTVNZ
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Windows won't remap the drives automatically if they require you to put in an ID and password. I'd make a simple batch file that maps it using the NET USE command every time you boot up.

Using Notepad, make a file that says:

net use <drive letter>: "\\<server>\<path>" <password> /USER:"<user>"

So an example would be:
net use J: "\\data\my documents" mypass /USER:"data\userid"

Then just add that to the Startup group so it runs every time you login.
Click to expand...

I've created a .txt document, with this information in it, but it just opens the document up at login. Is there anything else I need to edit to get it to auto map the drive?
Click to expand...

It needs to be a .bat file.

If you add the same user/password that you are using on your Vista Ultimate machine to the user list on the file server it should connect without the .bat file.
 
ugh.... sounds like I would have to upgrade to Vista Ultimate to make that work 🙁

Any tips on 3rd party software that would encrypt a file relatively seamlessly?
 
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