Mapped Network Drives unable to reconnect vista home basic trying to bypass with net use command having syntax trouble
I am replacing an older XP Pro machine with a Vista Home Basic machine. I have some network shares that I mapped to network drives on the new machine, however, when the machine reboots the shares do not automatically reconnect on start up. After researching this problem, it appears that Vista Home Basic does not have this feature built into it? Can someone confirm this? If that is the case I can just tell my client that they need to purchase an upgrade, but I need to be absolutely sure if that is my problem, before informing the client. I was researching the problem some more and found that it might be possible to bypass the network share issues, by using the "net use" command in a batch file at start up. This seemed promising, however I am having trouble with the syntax. Here is what I have so far: net use Z: /D net use Z: \\192.168.111.12\Our Documents /user:blah-server01_blah Zhq580_F!3 When I perform the command it does not work and instead it displays info on how to use the syntax properly. If I remove the password at the end of the file like so: net use Z: /D net use Z: \\192.168.111.12\Our Documents /user:gps-server01_admin I get this message: System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is not correct. Which makes sense because the password was not in there. I have a feeling it might be something to do with the special character in my password. Any thoughts? I would prefer not to change the password because it would mean I would have to change it on many other machines which I am not comfortable doing, as I am not really a true IT admin. I am just a PC enthusiast. Thank you for your time. -Steve B
May 5th, 2010 10:38pm

Password goes before the user ID in the net use command, and you can't use a space without quotes in the path. So the proper net use would be net use z: "\\192.168.111.12\Our Documents" Zhq580_F!3 /user:blah-server01_blah Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine
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May 5th, 2010 10:53pm

Thanks Bob, the quotes did the trick. Now the network drive connects during startup, however, i still would like to know if the root of my problem is simply because vista home basic does not support reconnecting network drives during startup.
June 4th, 2010 1:45am

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