mapped drives disconnect

I have two computers connected to a wireless network. Both are running XP Home. Both comuters can talk to each other and access the internet fine.

The problem I have is that when I log off or restart the computer it looses the map drive connection. All I have to do is click on the mapped drive and it regains the connection. I have the "reconnect at logon" checked.

This is just a minor problem since all I have to do is click on the mapped drive and it comes back. I was just wondering why it is doing that.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks Charlie

try remaking the shares the microsoft way!

I mapped the drives with explorer the way the article said. I will start over using one of the other ways the article mentions and see if that makes any difference.

I ran into the same exact problem the other day at a client's office. After the user logs in, the mapped drive in My Computer has a red X, but when you double-click the drive, it connects.

I noticed that when I ran net use f: \\blah\blah that it would connect to the mapped drive, but the WinXP "Unable to connect..." balloon would still appear. So to automate the connection of the mapped drive and to get rid of the balloon message, I did the following:

Created a .bat file to connect to the map drive:
net use drive letter: \\server\sharename

Created the following registry entry to suppress the balloon:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\NetworkProvider\RestoreConnection = 0 (REG_DWORD)

The following KB article from Microsoft explains why XP-Home may not remember a mapped network drive connection...read the bottom of the article.
MSKB Article

By the way, you're not the only one with this problem. I scoured Google and there are many people with this issue. It seems to mostly effect the WinXP Home users.

Good luck!!

Thanks for the info reddman..
It's just a minor annoyance

I think I might just do like you suggested :
make a batch file to manually log into the mapped drives..

It's funny thought I can go into network places and access network folders and they don't get disconnected. I think it just might be a bug in XP.

If that's all I have to gripe about I'm doing pretty well.

Thats for the responses NOO NOo and reddman ...

I saw a response from google.
The user said that it was when his drive went idle that the mapped drives would disconnect.

I think I'll try and set my drives to keep running to see if they still disconnect.

Even if that is the problem I don't think I want to go that route. I think I would rather deal with the red X than leave my drives running all the time..

I'll give it a check and see what happens..

Check out KB article 297684. Microsoft has "enhanced" the opperating system to now time-out connections after periods of not being used. Luckily, though, there is a way to (sort of) disable it.