Is the 'administrators' account you mention a domain account, or a local account?

The service has to start as a domain account. Unless the local W2K account (admin or otherwise) exists on the Filer w/ the same username and password, you're hosed.

The 'system' account has full rights on the local box, but absolutely NO rights on the network (by design)

HTH,

-john

John Witham Sr. Data Networking Engineer Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. e://jwitham@takedapharm.com

-----Original Message----- From: sdolive@ngco.com [mailto:sdolive@ngco.com] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:22 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: automatic drive mapping from a cifs client to the filer...

I created a share on an F740 (Ontap 6.0.1R3) and am trying to map a drive from a CIFS client (Windows 2000) automatically at logon point. I have no problems mapping the drive once I am logged on but would like it so that when a user logs onto the 2000 machine the drive gets mapped automatically. I have followed the microsoft suggestion which is copying the autoexnt, instexnt and servmess.dll files to the winnt/system32 root. I have also created a batch file whcih contains the following line 'net use j: \filer\x03. I have tried the starting the service with the local account and also the administrators account but still nothing. I have also added another command to the batch file (md test) and when the service is started it creates the directory test but does not map the drive. Is their anyone out there who has experienced the same problem?

Thanks, Shaun Technical Services 416-235-2122 sdolive@ngco.com

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