Posts for September, 2008

September 18, 2008

Dealing with spam

If there’s one jargon term that every user new to the Internet soon becomes acquainted with, spam must near the top of the list. Its prevalence and virtual ubiquity through many forms of online communication have generated miniature industries devoted to dealing with it, and the science of spam detection, prevention and treatment almost resembles [...]

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September 10, 2008

Mapped drives in Windows XP

Having recently set up some network storage, I came across a rather irritating problem mapping network drives in Windows XP. The basic setup procedure, as outlined here, worked perfectly on some systems, but failed to retain the stored username/password for network attached drives requiring alternative login details. The solution found, courtesy of this blog, is to map the drives using the following command (replacing U with the drive letter, and NETHOME\LOCID with the relevant UNC network location):
NET USE U: \\NETHOME\LOCID /PERSISTENT:YES /SAVECRED
The necessary username/password details can then be entered and should be stored, allowing the drive to be mapped automatically when the user logs on.
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