Slow Logons w/ Mapped Network Drives

[JJB6486]

Ok, I know the moderator is supposed to ANSWER questions, not ask them, but i can't find this one feature...... 🙁

I have a assortment of mapped network drives to different computers on my network. If i logon to my local machine and one comptuer is not on, it takes a long time to log in. I remember Windows 98 having a option of either "Reconnect at Logon" or "Reconnect at first use", but i want it in XP too. Anyone know where it is?

Thanks in advance

JJB6486

 

[Lactic.Acid]

That's an easy one. You can't. It's either map manually every time, or map at logon. You could probably try and write a batch file to map drives on each individual machine...but I would suggest either not shutting down or deal with one whole minute during boot.
/Lactic

 

[clutch]

Here's a response to your question from my forum, if you haven't received it already. I don't know if it works, since I wouldn't use persistent mapping anyway (especially to machines that may be offline):

http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=19921