How to add XP Home Remember password option?

[rina]

Hi,

Big computer companies still sell desktop and laptop computers with Windows
XP Home to offices, where users suffer from it's missing ability to remember
network passwords. When you try to log into any server or domain there isn't
an option "remember password" as in Windows XP Pro.
That also means if one tries to connect with MSIE Windows XP Home laptop to
office
Sharepoint services, one has to enter the password each time without
remembering option in the "Connect to ..." user name and password dialog
box.

Is there any way to add "remember password" option to Windows XP Home?
Is there any good 3rd party application which might help?

If sellers could point out this missing capability, many users had chosen XP
Pro instead. Unfortunately it has turned out like a secret, which most
salesman haven't ever heard about and users next option is to buy a at least
full Retail XP Pro upgrade, as there isn't any other updates fro XP Home OEM
version.

Tia
Rina

 

[Malke]

Hi,

Big computer companies still sell desktop and laptop computers with
Windows XP Home to offices, where users suffer from it's missing
ability to remember network passwords. When you try to log into any
server or domain there isn't an option "remember password" as in
Windows XP Pro. That also means if one tries to connect with MSIE
Windows XP Home laptop to office
Sharepoint services, one has to enter the password each time without
remembering option in the "Connect to ..." user name and password
dialog box.

Is there any way to add "remember password" option to Windows XP Home?
Is there any good 3rd party application which might help?

Buyers should be aware of what they are buying, particularly business
people.

XP Home cannot join a domain. The solution is to upgrade those XP Home
computers to XP Pro.

Malke

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Unfortunately cached credential manager in XP Home will not remember
passwords to Domain Resources.

The same thing happens by default on Media Center computers, but this
can be changed. XP Home cannot be changed.

--
Jeffrey Randow
(e-mail address removed)
Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006

http://www.networkblog.net

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hi,

Big computer companies still sell desktop and laptop computers with
Windows XP Home to offices,

Not to offices with cranky sysadmins who think XP Home is crap!

where users suffer from it's missing
ability to remember network passwords. When you try to log into any
server or domain there isn't an option "remember password" as in
Windows XP Pro. That also means if one tries to connect with MSIE Windows
XP Home
laptop to office
Sharepoint services, one has to enter the password each time without
remembering option in the "Connect to ..." user name and password
dialog box.

Is there any way to add "remember password" option to Windows XP Home?
Is there any good 3rd party application which might help?

If sellers could point out this missing capability, many users had
chosen XP Pro instead. Unfortunately it has turned out like a secret,
which most salesman haven't ever heard about and users next option is
to buy a at least full Retail XP Pro upgrade, as there isn't any
other updates fro XP Home OEM version.

Tia
Rina

One other option, clumsy and highly insecure though it is, would be to set
up batch files with net use commands that would authenticate the users once,
so subsequent connections wouldn't ask.

net use x: \\server\share /userOMAINNAME\username password
or
net use x: \\computername\share /user:COMPUTERNAME\username password

 

[rina]

People usually decide to buy a favourite toys without asking from sysadmins.
Now there is 3 laptops with XP Home and only after 3rd one, the missing
"remember password" came into people knowledge as XP Home built in
limitation. To be percise their purpose is connect to their office windows
sharepoint services over internet and not the domain at all.
Now they ask me to fix it and I believe it can be done after some research.

Rina


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

People usually decide to buy a favourite toys without asking from
sysadmins.

That's something to take up with your management - for reasons far beyond
what you're mentioning here.

Now there is 3 laptops with XP Home and only after 3rd
one, the missing "remember password" came into people knowledge as XP
Home built in limitation. To be percise their purpose is connect to
their office windows sharepoint services over internet and not the
domain at all.

Now they ask me to fix it and I believe it can be done after some
research.

Well, you could try what I suggested and see whether it works - if you don't
mind someone's domain credentials sitting there in a batch file for anyone
to see.

Or, the users who went out on their own and bought nonstandard stuff can
just learn to deal with the inconvenience of having to enter their
credentials. It might be a valuable learning experience for them.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but if you have a domain, it's best that you
have only domain-member computers connecting to it - and that they be locked
down, controlled by group policy, centralized antivirus software,
centralized account management, password policies, and so forth. If your
management doesn't understand that, there isn't much you can do, until
someone wants to do something and gets error messages - or someone brings in
a compromised laptop and does Very Bad Things to your network. I'd at least
make sure you have a 'paper trail' (electronic, of course) indicating you've
advised your management of this and recommended against it. Ultimately it's
their call, but you ought to do some CYA as well as advise them on the best
technological solutions for their network. Good luck; I know it's not easy.

Rina


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

In

Not to offices with cranky sysadmins who think XP Home is crap!


One other option, clumsy and highly insecure though it is, would be
to set up batch files with net use commands that would authenticate
the users once, so subsequent connections wouldn't ask.

net use x: \\server\share /userOMAINNAME\username password
or
net use x: \\computername\share /user:COMPUTERNAME\username password