Digital BW, The Print

My 2000 box and ME box mount the network drives when they boot off or 
the first time they have to go out and find them. From that point on 
they will open the network drives as quickly as they will open the local 
drives. XP on the other hand has to go out and find them each time which 
takes an inordiant amount of time - actually probably 15 seconds but I'm 
not  a very patient person when it comes to how operating systems should 
work in 2004.

You should hear my wife "bitch about it" since she is retired from 
teaching computer science (OS and complier design) at the college level 
and wrote some of first compilers for CDC Cyber Series - my I am dating 
myself.

I've not been able to make XP do the same thing as the "older OS's" do. 
Drives me crazy - makes me thing Bill Gates and Michael Jackson are in 
some strange conspiracy to make normal people thing they are not normal 
so they can take over the world!

Thanks for your response.

Truman

Ellie Kennard wrote:

> I have never had any problem with any of it. I have never actually 
> mapped !
>
> I just put each of the computers on the network using the same network
> name for each, give the appropriate permissions for folders etc. and they
> were able to communicate. I communicate with three XP machines and one
> Windows 98 as well as a Print Server (I think that's Win 2000) and one
> printer on the network as well as a the wireless print server.
>
> When I put something new on, it sometimes takes a bit of time for the
> network to find it, but I ping the ip address of the computer and it finds
> it okay.
>
> It was a while ago all this was set up, but I know I didn't map a network
> drive. I never used the Microsoft firewall.
>
> Sorry if that is not much help.
>
> Ellie


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