I actually found that when building hte image Arend, I have tried the registry version of disabling UAC, and just dragging it to the bottom of the slider, no luck each way.

I had tried a different NIC driver, still no luck.

The only thing that confuses me more, is it works if I open command prompt and type out what kix is doing...

net use S: \\e500srv2\share

that works, every time, but kix cannot seem to map it on its own, thinks its mapped still.