created new folders and setup sharing and security on a windows server 2003, have same sharing, security, users and group settings as other shared folders have. Have several workstations with win 7 pro and XP pro, I am able to map a drive to these new folders and selected reconnect at log on but when you log off or restart workstations then log on(domain), drive mappings for the new folders are not there, you have to remap drives. Have checked users and groups, members of and settings, check fine, any suggestions.

1. Consider using one share for all server resources. This reduces the amount of overhead that is required to maintaing the whole structure. 2. Use a logon script which maps appropriate drives for each user department. This also helps when users delete disk mapping by an accident.MCITP: Enterprise Administrator; MCT; Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor

To do one share of all resources would not work, they do not want certain groups and users to have access to certain folders, if I understand correctly on this suggestion. I am not that familiar with logon scripts, if you have twenty groups do you have to create a script for each one. How do you go about doing either one of these suggestions

Hi, Thanks for posting here. Please first verify the start script that you publish to clients and users and make sure there is no script that could remove mapped driver . Meanwhile, seems these computers are domain members , so you may consider mapping driver via group policy settings: Configure a Mapped Drive Item http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770902.aspx Thanks. Tiger LiPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

It is very simple to make this happen if I understand your question that is. With group policy's you can make certain rules for groups of users. You also start a bat script or vbs script at logon so that they have the shared folder as a network location. The script can also log every user that logs in the domain. To map a share use this: net use Y: \\servername\share /p:no The "Y" is the drive letter and the "\\servername\share" is the location of the share you want to give acces to. Use this in a bat script and let Group Policy use it at logon and at logof you can change the "/p:no" to "/delete" so it will delete it for sure. You can change permissions of the share and to make everything a bit more easier you also can use DFS. For more info about DFS for server 2003 take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dfs/default.mspx The drives always go away when you relog because they aren't persistent just like the line i gave you "net use Y: \\servername\share /p:no". The "/p:no" means NOT PERSISTENT and that means it will delete itself when you relog or reboot. Hope it helped and good luck!