Freakin win XP Home...

[PTCvette]

Hey everyone... Maybe you know an answer to this that I don't... Here's the background: I have a laptop with WinXP Home and SP2. My Desktop runs WinXP Pro SP2, and the file server runs Win2k Pro.

Now, on my desktop, when I connect to a network drive in XP Pro, it asks for the username and pswd if I have the stuff protected, which I do. There's a checkbox that gives you the option to save that info for that drive if you want. On the laptop, when I go to a drive, I have to log in, but there's no option to save that info...

Now, I don't mind typing that stuff every time I go to the network drives, because I don't use it too much on the laptop. BUT.... On the freakin laptop, when I try to print to a network printer, I can't do it because I am not logged onto the computer hosting that printer. If I go into my network places and try to access that printer, it gets the username and password, and then works until I reboot the computer again. Any way to make it stick on here???

CLIFF NOTES FOR THE IMPATIENT-----

1 - laptop has xp home
2 - laptop won't save network drive login info
3 - it ticks me off
4 - HELP!

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Sideswipe001]

I think they did it on purpose to annoy you into buying Professional edition. 😉

Seriously, one of the major differences is the ability/ease of networking the two. I'd assume that home was deliberately left that way.

 

[PTCvette]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was figuring. I looked all over the freakin thing for a way to save that info, and I can't find one. I thought maybe someone knew of a program or something that was made just because of this stupid XP Home that would do it for me but I guess not, Oh well... Might be time to take the laptop back to linux!

Jeff

 

[Kremlar]

Why don't you create the same user/password on the server as you use on the XP Home machine?