Help on mapping drives on Windows 2k3 server

[joeyg2391]

Hi guys,

I am newbie to the windows server 2003 OS. I thought i might give it a try and test it out. My question is since all my other computer are on the same workgroup, how can i have them map a shared folder that's on my server machine. On my Xp machine i actually did map to the server's shared folder. My only problem is that when i restart my machine it says it cannot connect to the network drive. I have to manually click on the network drive and enter my username and password. I dont want to keep on doing this. I want my XP machine to automatically connect to the share without needing to type your username and password since the Server would know that the XP machine user is connecting to it. I setup my server's shared folders with different users and with different set of permissions. One folder for example is set for storage space for my XP machine and Only my XP user can access it. Can you help me out. Also is their a good site or book that teaches everything about Win2K.

Thanks

[tguy]

In a Workgroup configuration you can either:

1) Create an account on the server machine that has the same name and password as the user account you use to login to your Windows 2000 or Windows XP PC

2) Use Tools --> Map Network Drive in Explorer and tell it to "Connect using a different user name.." Then give it the name of the user account on the server, ie: Myserver\Myuser and the appropriate password for the user account on the server you are connecting to.

Hope this helps.

tguy