Question

I have a samba network share on a FreeBSD box that I use for development.

I have it set up as a shared drive on my WinXP box, and it works fine.

However, if I reboot the xp box, the shared drive will not be accessible until I click on it and enter the password, even though I have set it to use the correct username and password and to connect at startup.

Does anyone know offhand what might be the issue? I can get version data, etc. if necessary, but wanted to hang this out there briefly to see if it might be a common samba issue.

Thanks!

EDIT:

So Sorry! I thought I had said I have XP Pro. I actually have the auth stored in the mapped drive, where it says “authenticate using user.” I also use the same username for the samba share as the xp login, though not the same pw.

Answer 1

to get it to map on startup, you can put this in a batch file

@echo off
NET USE \\computer\share "password" /USER:user

hide it somewhere… I couldn’t find a way to get the literal credentials out of the net use string either..

then go into Start->Run->Regedit and find this key

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

From there, you can add a call to that batch file so that it runs on startup….

right click under all the values and select

new->string value

name it something non-descriptive and then modify it by right clicking it and then just put the path to the batch file into the value data field

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I also set up a samba share drive to be mapped automatically on startup by matching the login credentials on the computer to those used on the samba share…… it might be specific for Novell, but give it a shot