Mapping Drives in Workgroup

[Rob]

Hi,

I have 2 standalone XP Professional machines.
Machine1 acts as a kind of server and has a folder shared, which only a
local account on Machine1 has access to.
Machine2 has a persistent network drive mapped to the share on Machine1
using the username and password of the account on Machine1 to connect with.

When I restart Machine2, it remembers the connection, but it has a red cross
over it in My Computer. When I double click on it, I have to enter the
password for the account from Machine1.

Is there anyway to get it to remember the password so I don't need to
manually enter it each time I want to access that data?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

 

[molsonexpert]

Hi,

I have 2 standalone XP Professional machines.
Machine1 acts as a kind of server and has a folder shared, which only a
local account on Machine1 has access to.
Machine2 has a persistent network drive mapped to the share on Machine1
using the username and password of the account on Machine1 to connect with.

When I restart Machine2, it remembers the connection, but it has a red cross
over it in My Computer. When I double click on it, I have to enter the
password for the account from Machine1.

Is there anyway to get it to remember the password so I don't need to
manually enter it each time I want to access that data?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

Are the username and password on both machines identical?

steve.

 

[Rob]

Are the username and password on both machines identical?

Nope, but when I map the drive, I am using option to connect using a
different username/password and entering the account details from the other
machine. This works fine, it just doesn't remember the username and password
when I restart the PC.

 

[Bob I]

Make sure the password is EXACTLY the same for the username on both
machines. (including capitalization)

 

[Guest]

It is working as designed. When the current user is different than user
needed to connect to the remote resource, pass through authentication does
not occurr. You are challenged for the correct password.