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Hi dwightbaer04,<br />
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what folder permissions do you have set on the actual folder that your mapping to? have you given the user enough permissions to access it ??<br />
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Cheers!
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*** NOTE: &nbsp;I am assuming that you are using a domain environment.
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Thank you very very much, tray_jones and e-ryno. &nbsp;<br />
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It is a workgroup environment, I haven't got the domain set up yet.<br />
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I can't believe how long this thing has been irritating me, why didn't I ask Experts-Exchange sooner? &nbsp;:)
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How can I avoid always having to type in the administrator password when my workstation reboots and connects a Windows XP mapped drive to the Windows Server 2003 folder? &nbsp;I have an application that needs its data to be accessible to all workstations, so the server seems like the natural place to put it. &nbsp;But the users can't be always having to enter the administrator password. &nbsp;(When I map a drive on a Windows XP workstation to another Windows XP workstation, it works fine.)<br />
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Thanks
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How can I avoid always having to type in the administrator password when my workstation reboots and connects a Windows XP mapped drive to the Windows Server 2003 folder?  I have an application that needs its data to be accessible to all workstations, so the server seems like the natural place to put it.  But the users can't be always having to enter the administrator password.  (When I map a drive on a Windows XP workstation to another Windows XP workstation, it works fine.)

Thanks

Hi dwightbaer04,

what folder permissions do you have set on the actual folder that your mapping to? have you given the user enough permissions to access it ??

Cheers!

*** NOTE:  I am assuming that you are using a domain environment.

Thank you very very much, tray_jones and e-ryno.  

It is a workgroup environment, I haven&#39;t got the domain set up yet.

I can&#39;t believe how long this thing has been irritating me, why didn&#39;t I ask Experts-Exchange sooner?  :)

I&#39;ve mapped a drive to a W2K3 server folder.  But whenever the workstation re-boots it requires an Administrator password.

How can I avoid always having to type in the administrator password when my workstation reboots and connects a Windows XP mapped drive to the Windows Server 2003 folder?  I have an application that needs its data to be accessible to all workstations, so the server seems like the natural place to put it.  But the users can&#39;t be always having to enter the administrator password.  (When I map a drive on a Windows XP workstation to another Windows XP workstation, it works fine.)

Thanks

I've mapped a drive to a W2K3 server folder.  But whenever the workstation re-boots it requires an Administrator password.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).