samba - Nov 2002 - Samba mappings not reconnected on WinXP reboot

Dear Samba Team,

We're running Samba version 2.2.4 on a Solaris 8 file server.

Recently all PC clients were upgraded from NT4 to WinXP and although all
drives are mapping (following the EnablePlainTextPassword fix) the Samba
drives are not being reconnected correctly during a reboot of the client.

We are used to the NT clients prompting for a password during boot to
authenticate any required Samba drive mappings. However the XP clients do
not currently prompt for a password until the user manually starts Explorer
and double-clicks on the one of the Samba drives. These drives still appear
in Explorer but are displayed as disconnected (red cross against the drive
letter). Once the user has double-clicked the drive and supplied a valid
password, the red cross disappears and all is perfect until the next
reboot.

How do we force the XP client to prompt for authentication during boot (as
in NT world) so that all mappings are automatically accessible once the
machine is booted without the need to force the issue via Explorer ?

Any help you can offer would be fantastic.

Kind regards,
Darren Stanton.
Unix Systems Administrator.
Santos Ltd.


PS. We have tried (rightly or wrongly) applying the
"RequiresSignOrSeal"
reg fix found on the Web - No change in behavior.


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>How do we force the XP client to prompt for authentication during boot (as
>in NT world) so that all mappings are automatically accessible once the
>machine is booted without the need to force the issue via Explorer ?
Your setup sounds very strange.  Why not use Winbind for domain logon, to
avoid the password dialog?

Anyway, to force it, simply put a "net use \\server" in the login
script of
the users.  This will then establish a connection at login time and prompt
people for username & password. 

I had a similar problem of net use drive mappings failing at login on Win2k
machines.  I fixed it by putting the net use commands right at the beginning
of the script, then do some other stuff, and finally map drives (net use s:
....).

hope this helps

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