Howard,

Thanks immensely for your help, I have the problem nailed down and kixtart is working. Which was the impetus to make the post. The fact that the other 8 lines of code map drives to servers all over the network (by name) and work fine, it was just the above line had 2 differences 1) the use of the macro and the hidden share symbol and 2) it was on this new server ( its a 2k member server ) the first one at our site. Name resolution is working at least after fully loading and I can ping the server by NETBIOS name. We use WINS on a NT4 network. It's weird there is something going on, on Tuesday I will investigate the name resolution issues, I may just copy lmhosts file down the the 98 clients in the initial BAT. That should take care of name resolution for that server even if something weird is going on at login. At least until we can figure out what is really going on. There are other places to discuss windows networking woes.

It was the use of the @userid print statements and the @error @serror that ended up showing me what was going on.

Again thanks so much for your help!