Efficient log on to my College network

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The College where I work has supplied me with a laptop with XP Home Edition.
Unlike other machines in College I have to log on individually to each
network service I access. To make matters worse, the log on dialogue box
does not remember the domain name and my user name, so in addition to my
password I have to enter these manually each time I access a service. The
set up of the dialogue box implies that it could remember several user names.
The technicians at my College seem unable to explain how to set things up so
that the domain and user name are prefilled. I find it hard not to believe
that there is no solution to this problem, but to date have found nothing
that I am able to make sense of. Can any one help?
 
Uhhh, Windows XP Home Edition can't connect to domains

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Stephen said:
The College where I work has supplied me with a laptop with XP Home Edition.
Unlike other machines in College I have to log on individually to each
network service I access. To make matters worse, the log on dialogue box
does not remember the domain name and my user name, so in addition to my
password I have to enter these manually each time I access a service. The
set up of the dialogue box implies that it could remember several user names.
The technicians at my College seem unable to explain how to set things up so
that the domain and user name are prefilled. I find it hard not to believe
that there is no solution to this problem, but to date have found nothing
that I am able to make sense of. Can any one help?
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A workaround would be to create a batch file to log you on.
Right click your Desktop and choose New then Text Document.
Open the file and for each resource you log on to type a
separate line with the form:
net use \\servername\sharename password /user:username
So if your username is stephen, your password is shellard
and you want to connect to a folder named docs on a server
named college, you would type:
net use \\college\docs shellard /user:stephen
Choose a name for the file and save it with a .bat extension,
e.g. Logon.bat. (Ignore warning about changing file type)
When you want to connect, click the file icon on your desktop.

Bear in mind that anyone who can see the batch file will be
able to see your network password. If that is unacceptable,
type an asterisk * instead of your password and you will be
prompted.

If you don't need to log on to all resources at once, create
a separate batch file for each resource.
 
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