net use savecred

[Vincent]

I am having a problem using the savecred switch for the net use
command. Supposedly, the savecred switch can be used to map to a
resource using alternate credentials. From what I have read, when you
first connect to the resource, you will be prompted for the user name
and password to be used to connect to this resource. Afterwards, you
are not supposed to be prompted anymore. However, whenever I reboot
the computer and attempt to connect to the resource in question, the
user name is saved, but I am still prompted for the password. Is this
supposed to happen, am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
Thanks for your help.

-Vincent

 

[John Wunderlich]

I am having a problem using the savecred switch for the net use
command. Supposedly, the savecred switch can be used to map to a
resource using alternate credentials. From what I have read, when
you first connect to the resource, you will be prompted for the
user name and password to be used to connect to this resource.
Afterwards, you are not supposed to be prompted anymore. However,
whenever I reboot the computer and attempt to connect to the
resource in question, the user name is saved, but I am still
prompted for the password. Is this supposed to happen, am I doing
something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks for your help.

It depends on exactly what you typed in for the "net use" command.
For more information, see:

"Stored User Names and Passwords Feature Interoperability at a Command Prompt"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287536/en-us>

"Behavior of stored user names and passwords"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281660/EN-US/>

HTH,
John

 

[Vincent]

Thanks John. I will give this a whirl and see if I have any luck.

-Vincent