Map a Network Drive in Windows XP Pro
Computers October 25th, 2004If you have trouble mapping a network drive to another computer running Windows XP (i.e. - keeps throwing up the login prompt) try these steps.
1. Make sure you are connecting as a user that is in the administrators group on the remote machine.
2. Open Windows Explorer on the remote XP computer, click the “Tools” menu, click on “Folder Options”, click on the “View” tab, scroll down, and uncheck “Use simple file sharing”.








March 24th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
thank you for this tip
December 21st, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Thanks for the tip. This worked great!
February 9th, 2007 at 1:23 am
I tried this but it still keeps popping up the login prompt when i put in my user name and password. Any other ideas?
April 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
hey tony . just too good to resist.
Excellent hint. All the other resources are not mentioning the truth.
We as a computer people just need a person like u.