I have a Sony Laptop with Windows XP Professional loaded on there. When I bring it to work and logon to the network/domain. It only connects to my P: drive (personnal drive). It does not connect to any of the other shared drives that I have. Does anyone know what I need to do to get all my network drives to connect when I logon. The NT domain is running NT 4.0...if that helps. Do I need to have Active Directory inorder to get my network drives? Any info or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

It's WinXP Pro.... nuff said... we all know how Billy Boy likes his operating systems

 

your p: drive is probably part of your login script (set in user manager on the PDC), that's why it maps for you.

Probably the best way to have your drives mapped for you would be to create a batch file of your own that runs on your pc (although I'm very inexperianced with XP, this works on 2000)
in the batch you should have something like:

net use g: serversharepoint password /user:domainusername /p:n

NET USE [devicename | *] [computernamesharename[volume] [password | *]] [/USER:[domainname]username]

 

I'm assuming that your admin has already setup the login script on the server. BTW the login script is saved on to this directory C:Winntsystem32ReplImportScripts on NT machines and since it is more likely for the BDC's not the PDC to handle authentication of clients to the domain it is highly recommended that you save the login scripts there as well. I'll spare you the hassle of Replication.

If this still does not gain you access to the shared drives just give up and go out and purchase Novell... no no j/k.

I can only assume that during your installation or setup of XP you have disabled NetBios over TCP/IP.

To enable NetBios over TCP/IP follow these simple steps:

1. Left click Start up menu >> select Setting >> select Network and Dial-up Connections.
2. Right click Local Area Network Connection >> select Properties
3. Left click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) >> select Properties.
4. Left click Advanced >> select the WINS tab.
5. Left click Enable NetBios over TCP/IP
6. Left click OK
7. Left click OK to close all boxes.

You can also use NetBEUI but I highly recommend against this on a larger size network. M$ is no longer supporting this protocol although you can still get it to work on XP .

 

machokow: The login scripts have already been replicated from the PDC to all the BDCs. Also, I did not disable the NetBios over TCP/IP. Man I hate XP...

 

S2k-- Quick test you can run is to map the shares by IP vs. UNC. You can map virtual drives in XP (BTW all OSs) on the client machines, so there is no need to edit the logon scripts. If you can map to the shares using this method then I would recommend re-checking the WINS configuration on your network.