Could not reconnect all network drives...

[panamanian33]

Hi everyone, I have a problem (otherwise, I wouldn't be writing right !) I have been trying to get around this error message ""could not reconnect all network drives..." on Windows XP Home Edition.

I have mapped that drives with every possible letter in the alphabet and still I get that stupid message everytime I logon. Shouldn't it reconnect automatically? That's what that check mark is for right ? I'm not successful at all. I have to double click on the darn drive, promts me for a user name and password and then I'm in.

By the way, I'm trying to map a share drive that resides on a Windows 2000 Pro machine. I have added a user name and password on the share drive already so that I could logon with that name on XP Home. Any suggestions on how to get around this?

Thanks, Alex

[Play_The_0dds]

To map network drives - e.g. to get access to your central filestore on bodiam, the courses folder on ward (the V: drive on public PCs) or to shared software on corfe - you can use the following method:

Go to an Explorer window (such as My Computer) and choose Tools > Map Network Drive...
In the Map Network Drive window that appears, click on the Connect using a different user name option.
In the box that opens, enter as the user name ukc\xyz1 where xyz1 is your UKC network login. In the password field enter your UKC network password. (NB. Do not forget to put ukc\ before your username, the process will not work otherwise.)
Click OK.
Back in the main window, type the full path to the folder you are mapping, e.g. \\corfe\install. Alternatively, click on Browse to browse for a folder on the network. Most of the folders you will need to access (for example, those on the host ward) will be located under ‘UKC’ - e.g. \\ward\courses
To map your central filestore (Z: drive on public PCs) select Z: as the drive name and in the path box type \\bodiam\??? where ??? is your system ID, not your Login. You can find out your sysid on a public PC by running the mailinfo program (Start, Programs, UKC UTILITIES, Mailinfo). Make sure you run the mailinfo program on your own login. When using your sysid, only enter the three letters and NOT the numbers. E.g. hcg003 would be entered as \\bodiam\hcg.