Mapped drive prompting for logon info after restart

I'm using WinXp on the client PC and WinServer2003 on the machine that I am trying to map. I have checked "Reconnect at login" and I've also followed an article on msdn that showed how to change autodisconnect and the disconnect timeout. I disabled the first option nd changed the second option to a very high value.

Any ideas what I could do to have the PW remembered?
It seems like it's clientside and that it's not remembering the pw after the PC is shutdown. If the computer is left on and the login info has been typed in since it has been restarted, the mapped drive is accessible w/o a pw.

Oh, one thing I just remembered. The actual message that is displayed when I click the drive to open it is "Incorrect password or unknown username for \\pcname\sharename".
Not sure =/ I clicked "use a different logon/pw" when first mapping, and typing it in again after a restart will work but not if the machine is restarted.

Go to the Control panel, then go to User Accounts. Select the user you would like to give access and at the top left hand part of the screen you will see a link called "manage my network passwords" You can add the information there.

IMO It is easier to just add the user to the share server and set the permissions. That way you have more control over what they can and cannot access. If you are logging them as an admin on the server, they will then have admin privlidges. I'm not sure thats what you want to do.

ld rather do that too, but I didn't see an option for getting rid of the pw check everytime you want to connect to the share. I did read somewhere that activating the guest acct would do it, but I tried and it didn't not give me access to the shares, just the computer name. All the shares were restricted. Now that I think about it, maybe if I set a security policy/permission that the user "guest" can access the shares, it might work... no, that didn't. It says I don't have permission.


If you have an other ideas on how I can accomplish this, I would appreciate it. If not, then I guess I'll have to try set the pw on every computer.