jdMorgan - 3:53 pm on Jul 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Good old Windows!

Maybe take a look at all of the permissions, starting at the very top: Do you log into your machine as "The Administrator" while he logs in as a user (even with super-user or Admin rights)?

Maybe also poke around with the Group Policy Editor, and see if there are specific settings for mapping network drives and/or using previously-mapped drives -- or drives mapped by other 'users', etc.

Gosh, you'd think that a permissions issue that stops a process dead in its tracks would result in an error being logged *somewhere*... WinNT is *so* much better than Win9x, but it still doesn't do things properly that other OSes have been doing correctly since the early 1970s!

Jim