Question : Auto reconnect mapped drives and printers

Hi all.

I have this very annoying problem. I have Windows 2003 server with Windows 98 workstations. My problem is this.

Every now and then the users tend to misteriously disconnect the mapped network drives and printers. What happens is that the user(s) forgets the password, or types the incorrect password (having caps lock on). When trying to open the mapped drive, a window pops up prompting for the password, but the user(s) cancels this and the drive is disconnected. There is one network printer that is shared on workstation 1. If workstation 1 is restarted, or not started before the other workstations, the network printer gets disconnected because the connection is unavailable.

I am now fed up with mapping drives and printers.
There is nothing wrong with any cables, swithces, routers or NIC's. The problem is idiotic users!!

Is there a way of having Windows 98 reconnect the mapped drives and printers in the background without notifying the user that it is unavailable??

All comments welcome. I will raise points if this question becomes more complicated.

Christo

Answer : Auto reconnect mapped drives and printers

You also could use a bat file in the startup folder
net use * /delete
net use Z: \\server\shared_files password {password} /user:domain_name\username
net use lpt1 \\server\printer password {password} /user:domain_name\username