Guest rosegrower Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 I need to save a password for a mapped drive on several computers. On some I get the option to remember the password and on others I don't. How can I get the password remembered on the computers that don't prompt? Thanks
Guest Malke Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive rosegrower wrote: > I need to save a password for a mapped drive on several computers. On some I > get the option to remember the password and on others I don't. How can I get > the password remembered on the computers that don't prompt? > What version of XP are you running on the computers that won't save the password? What is different about those computers? Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest rosegrower Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive Most are xp pro but some are xp home. I need to save the password on both. "Malke" wrote: > rosegrower wrote: > > I need to save a password for a mapped drive on several computers. On some I > > get the option to remember the password and on others I don't. How can I get > > the password remembered on the computers that don't prompt? > > > > What version of XP are you running on the computers that won't save the > password? What is different about those computers? > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >
Guest Malke Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive rosegrower wrote: > Most are xp pro but some are xp home. I need to save the password on both. Back up and give a good description of your network - is this an office or a home network? - and exactly what you are trying to do. Do you want users to be able to connect seamlessly to the mapped drive without providing a password or not? Offhand, it sounds like a permissions issue. Usually this can be solved by creating matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. Then when a user connects to the shared resource they are authenticated by the system hosting that resource and no logon is required. You can still have users login automatically to a particular account (giving the effect of going directly to the Desktop) for convenience if you want. Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest rosegrower Posted December 13, 2007 Posted December 13, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive This is an office network (server 2003) at a library. The computers with xp pro allow me to save the password. The computers with xp home do not. Is there something I can download to get xp home to let me save the password? "Malke" wrote: > rosegrower wrote: > > Most are xp pro but some are xp home. I need to save the password on both. > > Back up and give a good description of your network - is this an office > or a home network? - and exactly what you are trying to do. Do you want > users to be able to connect seamlessly to the mapped drive without > providing a password or not? Offhand, it sounds like a permissions > issue. Usually this can be solved by creating matching user accounts and > passwords on all machines. Then when a user connects to the shared > resource they are authenticated by the system hosting that resource and > no logon is required. You can still have users login automatically to a > particular account (giving the effect of going directly to the Desktop) > for convenience if you want. > > Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - > http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >
Guest rosegrower Posted December 13, 2007 Posted December 13, 2007 RE: Password save for mapped drive I just realized that I have one computer that has xp pro that does not prompt to save the password. "rosegrower" wrote: > I need to save a password for a mapped drive on several computers. On some I > get the option to remember the password and on others I don't. How can I get > the password remembered on the computers that don't prompt? > > Thanks
Guest Malke Posted December 13, 2007 Posted December 13, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive rosegrower wrote: > This is an office network (server 2003) at a library. The computers with xp > pro allow me to save the password. The computers with xp home do not. Is > there something I can download to get xp home to let me save the password? By design, XP Home does not cache credentials. If you want your users to not have to enter passwords every time then you need to upgrade to XP Pro. You apparently don't have a domain; if you ever decide to set one up XP Home cannot join a domain either. As for the one XP Pro machine that doesn't prompt for the password, disable Simple Sharing (Folder Options>View tab). It is unclear to me whether you do want users to have to enter a password or not. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest rosegrower Posted December 13, 2007 Posted December 13, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive I do not want them to have to enter the password. All computers are members of a workgroup. Thank you for your help. "Malke" wrote: > rosegrower wrote: > > This is an office network (server 2003) at a library. The computers with xp > > pro allow me to save the password. The computers with xp home do not. Is > > there something I can download to get xp home to let me save the password? > > By design, XP Home does not cache credentials. If you want your users to > not have to enter passwords every time then you need to upgrade to XP > Pro. You apparently don't have a domain; if you ever decide to set one > up XP Home cannot join a domain either. > > As for the one XP Pro machine that doesn't prompt for the password, > disable Simple Sharing (Folder Options>View tab). > > It is unclear to me whether you do want users to have to enter a > password or not. > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >
Guest Malke Posted December 13, 2007 Posted December 13, 2007 Re: Password save for mapped drive rosegrower wrote: > I do not want them to have to enter the password. All computers are members > of a workgroup. Thank you for your help. Then create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista: Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm Make sure you create the matching user accounts/passwords on your Win2003 machine, too. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest matthewmcaree Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: Password save for mapped drive Hi, I have the same problem on my home network. When I originally set it up, with 4 computers and a NAS drive, I configured it somehow so that it didn't ask for the password everytime you restarted a computer. I recently had to reformat one of my computers and of course wiped all the settings in the process. The problem is I can't rembember what I did the last time and can't find it anywhere on the net. All the other computers still access the drive without the need to re-enter the password but this one won't. I know I didn't need to map the drive, and I have a funny feeling I simply did something through windows explorer. Any ideas please? I know this is an old thread but theres loads of people on loads of forums with the same problem (using XP home) and no one has given the right answer. All help offered will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Matt. -- matthewmcaree
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