Connecting to a mapped drive without username & pass

[ckramer7070]

Some of our computers will allow a user to map a drive and auto connect
to that drive without prompting for username and password and some
won't. Auto connecting meaning after log off or power off.

A recent XP OS upgrade was performed on 4 workstations, all four
require mapped drives and all four exhibit the same required logon
behavior for all mapped drives.

Any suggestions?

Thank you for any help.

Chad

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

In this case, you may want to enable guest account. For the auto connection, you may create a logon batch file to map the drive or use re-connect option..

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
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Some of our computers will allow a user to map a drive and auto connect
to that drive without prompting for username and password and some
won't. Auto connecting meaning after log off or power off.

A recent XP OS upgrade was performed on 4 workstations, all four
require mapped drives and all four exhibit the same required logon
behavior for all mapped drives.

Any suggestions?

Thank you for any help.

Chad

 

[N. Miller]

In this case, you may want to enable guest account. For the auto connection,
you may create a logon batch file to map the drive or use re-connect option..

I tried "re-connection option" in the Help & Support Center search. 0
results were returned. The re-connect option in the GUI mapping menu
doesn't seem to stick; whenever I log off, then log on again, I am left
with disconnected network drives.

 

[ckramer7070]

Figured a way around it:

Log OFF/ON, map a new network drive (or disconnect an old one and
remap) to the same share. When the Network tree comes up and the
computer/server pull down cannot be expanded right click and choose
Explore, you will then be prompted for user name and password, REMEMBER
to check the Always use this password box before choosing OK. An
explorer window will appear if sucessfully authenticated, close the
window and go back to mapping the required share. Log OFF/ON to test.

Thanks for the help,

Chad

 

[N. Miller]

Figured a way around it:

Log OFF/ON, map a new network drive (or disconnect an old one and
remap) to the same share. When the Network tree comes up and the
computer/server pull down cannot be expanded right click and choose
Explore, you will then be prompted for user name and password, REMEMBER
to check the Always use this password box before choosing OK. An
explorer window will appear if sucessfully authenticated, close the
window and go back to mapping the required share. Log OFF/ON to test.

Thanks for the help,

Chad

...you will then be prompted for user name and password, REMEMBER
to check the Always use this password box before choosing OK.

There is the problem. I am not being presented with the option to check
"Always use this password". Time to hunt down the post with the registry
hack; I recall seeing it somewhere around here.