Saving a network username/password

[tom1681]

I've got a Windows 2000 Pro computer that needs access to a share on a Windows 2003 server. When I first connect to the server I am asked for a username and password which I enter and I connect sucessfully. However, after half an hour or so (or after logging off and on gain), if I try the connection it asks for the username and password again which means the program I have running can't access the share without the username and password being entered manually. How can I get Windows so save these details? I've tried all the things mentioned here:

http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-646715.html

which haven't helped. Neither machine is in a domain.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jump1ng]

Would it not be possible to map the folder to a drive letter on your machine?

You can have this mapping being recreated everytime you start your machine.



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[tom1681]

I should have mentioned that - it doesn't save the details when you map a drive either. The mapped drive will loose it's connection after a while too (the red cross appears next to it in Explorer). To restore this, the username and password has to be typed in again... It's not my machine so I need the user to not have to enter the username/password on reboot or any other time.

 

[Jump1ng]

It's maybe not the best solution but you could have a batch file in the startup folder that will map up the folders as you need on startup like this.

NET USE M: \\servername\folder /userOMAIN\USER password

This will make sure that the folder get mapped up everytime the pc starts.


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[bcastner]

Windows XP introduced a protected storage service to handle this isssue.

The best advice is to make the username and password of the user a local user on the Windows 2003 server so that alternate credentials are not required to access the share.

 

[tom1681]

Thanks for your suggestion. I'd actually already tried that in a scheduled task (with a remove connection command before it) and that got things in a right knot. After a while it couldn't remove it as it said it didn't exsist, and it couldn't add it again as it said the drive letter was in use! A reboot sorted it out.

As I said before, having a mapped drive doesn't help either as the connection for that goes after a while too.

There must be a way to make Windows save the username/password - it does on other W2000 machines I have, why's this one different?