Workgroup Templates in networked folders - help!

[Tom]

We store our company shared document templates on a Windows PC that has
shared folders. For security reasons, access to the shared folders is
password protected. Since we put the passwords on the folders, the user PCs
do not seem to be able to 'remember' where the workgroup templates are
stored. We set them in the normal way on the users' PCs (in Word:
Options/File Locations/Workgroup templates). When set, they work fine, until
the PC is rebooted - then the entry is empty. We have tried creating a batch
file that runs on power up to connect the PC to the shared folders on the
network (using 'net use'), but this has not worked either. We are using Word
2000 (Office 2000) on Win 98, 2000 Pro, XP Home and Pro.

Any help would be welcome.

Regards

Tom

 

[AUSongbird]

Tom, do you have the shared folder mapped? Or are you just pointing
to it using \\computername\sharename convention? Mapped drives worked
better for me in this situation.

AUSongbird