but #1 is hardly a chore when it's a one-time drive mapping (remembering to tick the box to keep the mapping past a reboot).
Fair enough - as long as you aren't prompted for a username and password to connect to the share every time you log in!
Also, persistent mappings will slow the login process significantly if the remote share is not available, which tends to happen often in home environments, especially with laptops that get used outside the home network. Maybe Vista / Win7 improves this, but I gave up with persistent mappings with Win2K and previous.
SD