Mapped drive not saving user credential

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Hi,

I have 20 PC(XP & 2000 Professional) and SBS server 2003. Few of them
is still in workgroup(not joining domain yet for certain reasons). Each
of them have mapped drive to a shared folder in SBS Server. The mapped
drive is using user credential of domain users that is granted the
permission of that folder.

It works fine but everytime i try to access that share, it will prompt
for password. Is that a way to save the user credential(is there any
policy to enable this)?

Thanks.

 

[Kevin Longley]

For the users logging into computers belonging to a workgroup simply
duplicate their userid/password in active directory, give the users access
to the shared dirs and the credentials will pass through.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hi,

I have 20 PC(XP & 2000 Professional) and SBS server 2003. Few of them
is still in workgroup(not joining domain yet for certain reasons).

Which are? (Sorry, but you brought it up.)

Each of them have mapped drive to a shared folder in SBS Server. The
mapped drive is using user credential of domain users that is granted
the permission of that folder.

It works fine but everytime i try to access that share, it will prompt
for password. Is that a way to save the user credential(is there any
policy to enable this)?

Thanks.

If you set the login info on the workstation to match the domain
credentials, it should pass them through to the server when they try to
access the shares.

 

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These would the solution but it would be troublesome to set workstation
to match the password/ to create different user accounts in AD. Is
there a policy so that the clients will remember those credential
previously entered?

Thanks.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

These would the solution but it would be troublesome to set workstation
to match the password/ to create different user accounts in AD.

That's correct. That's why one doesn't use this configuration, and instead
joins the computers to the domain and has all users log into the domain
only.

Is
there a policy so that the clients will remember those credential
previously entered?

See above.