Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

Hey Guys,

I have my NAS up and running fine in Linux, but I'm having a problem with Windows XP Home and I'm hoping someone might be able to help out.

Within the NAS I have set up user accounts, all have r/w access to a folder called 'General' and then there is a folder for each user account.

I've mapped a shared drive within the 'My Computer' window. Assigned a drive letter (T:). Told Windows to reconnect the share at login, and told Windows to connect as a different user and supplied the user name and password.

When I click 'Finish' the new mapped drive appears in the 'My Computer' window, and explorer opens with a view of the contents of the folder. I can then read/write within that folder.

This is all fine for as long as I'm logged in to Windows. As soon as I log out everything seems to go missing.

The next time I log in I'm told that the username/password for the share are incorrect. As soon as I supply the correct password I'm allowed access again though.

So.....

Anybody know why Windows might be getting its knickers in a knot over this one?

Thanks :)

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

as you well know, Raistlin, I know nuffin, but is the functionality you want only available in the 'professional' version, of XP, rather than the 'home' version you referenced???

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

Shouldn't be, it should only require Windows to remember a damn password! :D

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

Not sure it can remember the password like that in XP Home.
What you could do as a kludge is change the share to password security (rather than user) and have a single line cmd file with :
net use T: //NAS/General Password
Then add this file to your start-up group.

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

Oh pooh.

Unfortunately the NAS is fairly basic and you need to set up username/password type accounts and then assign access to the shares for those accounts. You can't just have a general password on it :(

Looks like (after all the effort trying to get an OEM install of Home) I'm going to have to upgrade to Pro after all :(

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

Ok, this is starting to be a real problem now.

I now have Windows XP Pro installed, and I'm having the same problem.

The drives will map and function normally until I log off/on, then they won't reconnect at login. If I input the password again they login first time.

Do I need to change something in XP Pro to make this work, and is it possible to change the same thing in Home so that it will work too?

Thanks.

Re: Problems with mapping share to NAS
 

This is exactly what I did to get this working, I created a .bat file with a line in it for each share and put it in the 'Startup' directory.

Thanks very much for this :)

Just in case anybody else needs it, the syntax to mount a share is as follows:

Where:

Share name = 'General'
NAS name = 'Storage'
Username = 'uName' (username is specific to the NAS)
Password = 'pWord'
Mapped Drive Letter = T: