Yesterday was my 20 hour first exposure to Vista and I have to say that I'm depressed. On every level. When I map a drive letter to a share on another Windows server, I supply a known and working username & password. I check the "remember my password" and "reconnect at startup" buttons and sure enough, the drive comes online. Until the user logs off or reboots, at which time I'm notified that the reconnect failed ... and I have to investigate (click on theappropriate icons) andre-enter my password to get the share back. This reconnection problem has been broken since Win2000 and we've had to use Netware on our networks to handle the uer logins and reconnections -- and here we are SEVEN YEARS later and I'm still having to buy third party software to correct defects in Windows. Vista does nothing, so far, except stand in my way of getting things done and interrupting me every 30 seconds to ask permission to do things I JUST told it to do. IS THERE an UP side to this? Until I see it, I'm gong back to Windows 2000 and starting to look at Linux

Have you discovered any fixes for this problem, beyond leaving Vista behind? I just set up a friend's business using a mixed group of vista and old windows 98 machines. They are sharing quickbooks between vista machines and a printer. Each morning I get the call, "my computer won't print, I cannot open my quickbooks file on the machine that has to connect to the other drive.