Vista Tutorial - Mapped Network Drive Not Persistent

I have an XP Home desktop PC and a Vista Home Premium laptop. I have mapped
a folder on the desktop PC as network drive Z: on the laptop. Originally, I
clicked the checkbox that says, "Reconnect at Login." The problem with this
is that if the desktop PC is off, the laptop takes maybe 3 times longer than
normal to boot. So, I removed that network drive and re-added it, but this
time I did not check the "Reconnect at Login" box. However, The next time I
rebooted the laptop the network drive was not there!

What I want is for the network drive to be always mapped, but for Vista to
not seek a connection to it unless I browse to that drive. Doesn't this work
in XP? I just don't recall having this problem before.

I don't think what you are trying to do is possible. THe only way to get it
to only try an connect when you want to use it it to instead create a
shortcut to the location.
(right click and drag the share to your desktop, let go and select create
shortcut here)

I could be wrong though.

Vince

"mbs6" wrote:

If the drives are mapped, they will work fine even if you are not
connected to the network, as when vista boots it will just say that it
cannot connect to all network drives, (Same as XP)

I think the issue is that you are looking at the wrong problem, the
problem is vista taking 3X as long to boot when disconnected from the
network not how the network is mapped.

Vince, this still won't work as the shortcut has to be created from
something (Ie. your mapped Drive)

Take a look at the msconfig and see if there is something that could be
causing this slow down when attempting to connect to the network.

my vista Business laptop has 8 Networked drives on it and I regularly
boot at home while disconnected from the network and it works find


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