issue with Win Vista Home Premium not remembering mapped drive login/password

[ZippyDan]

I have two HP computers both running Windows Home Premium w/ SP1. I have defined a mapped network resource on both computers. One reconnects to the mapped drive every time it reboots. The other fails to reconnect and prompts me for the login password every time it reboots. Researching online tells me that Home Premium should not be able to remember mapped network login/pw info (credentials) after a reboot (dumb.) How is one computer able to do so?

 

[Swampster]

Go into Network and Sharing on the offending computer and make sure Pssword Protected Sharing is turned off.

 

[ZippyDan]

Which is the offending computer? I wish they would both remember login/pw 🙂

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: ZippyDan
I have two HP computers both running Windows Home Premium w/ SP1. I have defined a mapped network resource on both computers. One reconnects to the mapped drive every time it reboots. The other fails to reconnect and prompts me for the login password every time it reboots. Researching online tells me that Home Premium should not be able to remember mapped network login/pw info (credentials) after a reboot (dumb.) How is one computer able to do so?

Your right, Home doesnt support cached credentials. However, if your user name and password on the machines 'match' then that will be ok. So guessing one machine is in that scenario but the second one isnt.

Bill

 

[Swampster]

The offending compute is the one that wants a password from the other. The one that logs in correctly already has the correct network sharing settings

 

[In2Photos]

I have had a similar problem pop up recently connecting a Vista 64 Home Premium machine to a Win2K Pro file server. I got mine to work so I thought I would share what I did in case it helps others.

On the Vista machine when you go to Start > Computer and Click "map the network drive" there is a spot to "Connect using a different username" under the Reconnect at Logon box. Click on that and enter the username and password and click OK.

Like I said this worked for me, haven't tried on other systems, but thought I would mention it.