Connect to windows server

In our office we have a SBS 2000 and a vault server with all windows machines. We just bought 2 15" powerbook G4's. I have the powerbook connected to the network wired and wireless. I can get on the internet and I can also browse the servers under "network". On each server we have 2 folders that we map to all window machines. I was able to "map" the folders on the powerbook, when I did this it asked for a user and password just like you would enter when starting windows login. Everything worked fine until I restarted the powerbook and then the icons disappeared from the desktop. How can I get the icons to stay and also rename them on the dekstop to what people are use to such as "drive S or drive V"
Is there a way to have the powerbook user login like on window machine to the network or they just use their user name and password when connecting to things on the network?
What is the difference in what I did to connect to the network drives and going into "directory access" utility and configure the SBS/CIFS?
Any help would be great or other advice on what I should do. This is a new would using mac's but so far it is good.
thanks

Hi Cadgod05, welcome to discussions.
Is there a way to have the powerbook user login like
on window machine to the network or they just use
their user name and password when connecting to
things on the network?
You could bind the machines to Active Directory following something like this
http://www.shellharbourd.det.nsw.edu.au/pdf/network/ad_configure.pdf
or other links on that site, but I'm not sure if that's what you want.
As for
What is the difference in what I did to connect to
the network drives and going into "directory access"
utility and configure the SBS/CIFS?
As I understand it Directory Access discovers network resources at startup/login. If these are not configured, you can still use apple+K to connect to resources but this activley searches for them. Make sense?
You could mount the drives at login by putting the shares in the login items pane of system preferences. Not too sure about the renaming though, will try a few things and get back to you.
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