Definitely an issue with 2004. BTW 1909 and 1903 work fine with my SMB1 mapped drives.
If a drive is mapped and the computer restarts, the drive will not connect. If I remove the mapped drive and a restart or just do an IPconfig /release and then in IPconfig/renew I can connect and remap. Works until I restart again. Curious thing is that
if I just have a desktop shortcut for the share, it will connect fine.... Even after a restart. If the drive is mapped it fails to connect upon restart. The scripting method WORKAROUND seems to work sometimes, but not always.
Hoping that Microsoft resolves this soon with a patch for 2004. It has become a real issue in my environment.