Some XP SP1/2 + DHCP issues

[rustycaps]

I used to have dial-up and my file server had manually mapped drives to it, and everything worked fine - i.e. they showed up as connected as soon as explorer was opened, and didn't have to be clicked on to work. Since changing the file server to DHCP though, the drive mappings come up virtually every time as disconnected - yes, I did look it up and tried doing a few things mentioned: changed registry on server to not timeout connections or something, use the /persistent:no switch with net use, and even do it manually, but still showing up as disconnected each logon/bootup. I know it's not a big deal to open explorer and open each share up so it refreshes the connection or whatever, but I'm curious as to why they don't just work normally.

On another issue, I seem to have problem getting the CD-ROM drive letters to stay where they are manually set to - have them to v:/w: mainly due to mapped drives and having the swap+capture partitions (on RAID0) as g:/h: to make it easier to configure page file settings - as they end up going back to i:/j:, which isn't a big issue, but it's not how I manually set them, so not sure as to why they don't stay there all the time (or maybe it's just a glitch with SP2?)

[Deezire]

Send A Bug Report to MS???

Maybe they know it..

[XtremeMaC]

i haven't had a problem with mapping network drives.

maybe u're using some program that doesn't let u change them?

[rustycaps]

As far as I can tell, the only thing that's been changed is turning the file server into a DHCP server as well, and having the DNS server and gateway (router) auto assigned to the set IPs for the 2 boxes running off it. I've done the mapping both ways, and it has very rarely worked any time - think it did work once or twice early on (before adding DNS server?). Maybe there's some service I've got running that shouldn't be, or one not runnning that should be.

As far as I can tell, I only used to have the problem when the system was reset or BSOD'd as it seems to want to find the secondary IDE channel where the cd drives are, hence re-adding them as the next 2 available letters (i/j in this case). I think I still have the same programs I usually use, though not sure if the TweakUI tweak had anything to do with it - used the option to not show drive letters, even though it still does, just at the start of each line not the end. i.e. (d:) swap

[rustycaps]

It seems that the shares work (at least on this system) when it has been booted up, then shut down for a while (a few hrs in this case), then booted up again, as all the drives appeared as they should - i.e. with showing up as "disconnected".

For the drive letters, I don't suppose that playing around with the boot order would affect it at all, though it's worth a try I guess.