Question : mapped network drive disappears

Here is my situation,

I have a windows 2000 (upgraded from windows 95) box called \\pcserver with a "pcserver" share that has it's permissions set to allow EVERYONE to access it's contents.

This share is mapped on several computers, from 98-XP to give users access to this information.
Before I upgraded to windows 2000, no one had any problems.
Now that I have 2000 installed, every time any user with the mapped drive to the share restarts thier system, or logs off and back on windows, a red X appears and says "there was a problem reconnecting to the mapped network drive".

When I go into MyComputer and double click the mapped drive on any of these systems, it instantly re-connects and everything is fine.

Why is this happening?

I have to believe that the problem is in the windows 2000 box that is serving the share, because every computer that has a mapped drive to it experiences this same problem.

Please helP!!!

Answer : mapped network drive disappears

Sounds like it is aeither a permissions error, or a password error. On the Win2k box, do you have all the users who access the share setup locally, and allow them access locally ? Since you r not running AD, there is nothing to authenticate users and passwords, so windows must do it itself, and if they are not listed in the 2k box, it will not know who they are and not reconnect automatically.

Also, how are the drives mapped ?login scripts ? , or just through network places ?

You can try the net use command "net use j \\pcserver\sharename" and if it connects fine in dos, save the file in notepad and name it logon.bat, and place it in thier startup folder. That way when they boot up and login, it will execute it. But if it gives you an access denied, then you will need to add the password and username to the net use command. "net use j \\pcserver\sharename password /user:domain\username" Domain name being the pcserver, if they are added to it in the users and groups in computer management.

Just a few ideas to get you going, and if they dont work, please let us
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