microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

Thanks Anteaus, that's not a bad idea regarding the batch file. And I
obviously agree concerning the change.

Strange thing is that the System account must be able to use different
credentials at some point...hence Startup Scripts configured with AD Group
Policy. I believe Startup Scripts run from the System account, but use the
domain computer account credentials to gain access to the Netlogon share. So
I think there's got to be a way, but maybe just not published.

Steve



"Anteaus" wrote:

>
> There is a change in behaviour with WinXP as compared to earlier Microsoft
> OS's, in that with XP, drive mappings apply to the user, and are only
> accessible to the account which created them. In earlier versions, network
> resources applied to the computer.
>
> Personally I think this is a detrimental change as it makes it very hard to
> perform network operations with services. But, that's the way it is.
>
> Your options are to run the process as a non-system user, or to use a
> batch-file to establish the share-connection when the process starts.
>