Simple drive mapping question

[imported_SLIM]

Like the title says, I'm trying to setup some mapped drive letters to my new NAS. I want these drives to be available by default when I logon to win xp pro. Unfortunately windows keeps assuming that my credentials are identical for my win xp login and my NAS (DLINK DNS-323) whenever I log on. I can edit the username and it maps just fine, but for the life of me, I can't keep it from putting my desktops name and login instead of the NAS username (ie office\bob instead of Rob). I'm running into a similar problem with Vista 32 home premium.

Anybody know a more permanent way of creating these network shares so that I don't have to log into the network drives everytime? Thanks.

 

[ktwebb]

Logon script in your profile's startup folder. Are you can add it to Run in the registry as well. You'd want to put the user/pass combo in there so it's not the most secure solution but you can always encrypt if your want to get really elaborate.

Just google network drive logon script. Lots of vbs scripts out there that you can tailor to fit your needs. batch file would work as well.

 

[imported_SLIM]

Thanks for the advice. It took about 5 minutes in notepad once I found a decent script.
This site had several nice templates.

 

[DrGreen2007]

I have the same setup as you.
XP Pro laptops (mine and the wifes) and 1 DNS-323


In Control Panel, User Accounts, [username] there is an option in the upper left corner "manage my network passwords"

I entered in the device name "NAS", the username "NAS\[username]" and the password

Then map a drive on the PC without using any username/password.
Next time you try to connect to the NAS device, Windows uses the NAS\[username] information, not COMPUTERNAME\[username] information.