vista home premium forgets network password on reboot

Hi!

I have 3 Vista Home Premium on my home network.
Each PC has its own user account with a password.

When I try to connect to a shared folder from one computer to another one,
I'm asked for a user name and password, and this is fine for me.

I provide the correct username and password, flag "remember password" and
the new drive is successfully connected.

WHY THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE LOST WHEN REBOOTING ???!!!
WHY ARE REQUESTED AGAIN ?!??!?!

How can I ensure that my vista is definitely remember the username and
password for a specific share? ?

Thanks in advance.

Luca wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have 3 Vista Home Premium on my home network.
> Each PC has its own user account with a password.
>
> When I try to connect to a shared folder from one computer to another one,
> I'm asked for a user name and password, and this is fine for me.
>
> I provide the correct username and password, flag "remember password" and
> the new drive is successfully connected.
>
> WHY THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE LOST WHEN REBOOTING ???!!!
> WHY ARE REQUESTED AGAIN ?!??!?!
>
> How can I ensure that my vista is definitely remember the username and
> password for a specific share? ?

AFAIK Vista Home Premium, like its predecessor XP Home, does not cache
passwords - so you're stuck with entering the password every time. If
don't want to do this, simply create matching user accounts and
passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same
account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account
can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on
all machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop
(into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this.
The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm


Malke
--
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"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

"Malke" wrote:

> > When I try to connect to a shared folder from one computer to another one,
> > I'm asked for a user name and password, and this is fine for me.
> >
> > I provide the correct username and password, flag "remember password" and
> > the new drive is successfully connected.
> >
> > WHY THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE LOST WHEN REBOOTING ???!!!
> > WHY ARE REQUESTED AGAIN ?!??!?!
>
> AFAIK Vista Home Premium, like its predecessor XP Home, does not cache
> passwords - so you're stuck with entering the password every time. If
> don't want to do this, simply create matching user accounts and
> passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same
> account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account
> can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on
> all machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop
> (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this.
>

Thanks for the autologon infos.
I already setted up autologon in one of the 3 pc and it works.

But still connecting to network shares does NOT work.

I created a new user account on the 3 pc.
Same name, same password.

So now I have:

3 Vista PC
3 different administrative accounts (one per PC)
3 same name/password normal user account (one per PC)

Still I'm asked for user name/password every time I try to access a network
share after a reboot.

:-((((

I thinking to write a small "net use ..... /user:.... password" batch file
that executes when the pc boots but it is awfull.

It's really like old win95 age ...

Luca wrote:

> Thanks for the autologon infos.
> I already setted up autologon in one of the 3 pc and it works.
>
> But still connecting to network shares does NOT work.
>
> I created a new user account on the 3 pc.
> Same name, same password.
>
> So now I have:
>
> 3 Vista PC
> 3 different administrative accounts (one per PC)
> 3 same name/password normal user account (one per PC)
>
> Still I'm asked for user name/password every time I try to access a network
> share after a reboot.

Then check your permissions on the share. Set it to Everyone.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

"Malke" wrote:

> Luca wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the autologon infos.
> > I already setted up autologon in one of the 3 pc and it works.
> >
> > But still connecting to network shares does NOT work.
> >
> > I created a new user account on the 3 pc.
> > Same name, same password.
> >
> > So now I have:
> >
> > 3 Vista PC
> > 3 different administrative accounts (one per PC)
> > 3 same name/password normal user account (one per PC)
> >
> > Still I'm asked for user name/password every time I try to access a network
> > share after a reboot.
>
> Then check your permissions on the share. Set it to Everyone.

Share-permission: everyone = read
administrators = full controll

ntfs-permission: everyone = read & exec
administrators, SYSTEM = full controll

Just out of curiosity .... why it should be a permission problem?
When I provide the user/password of the new "3-PC-same user" I *can
correctly access* the share .... I'm just asked for the user/password every
time ....

snif .... :'(

Luca.

Luca wrote:
>
>
> "Malke" wrote:
>
>> Luca wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the autologon infos.
>>> I already setted up autologon in one of the 3 pc and it works.
>>>
>>> But still connecting to network shares does NOT work.
>>>
>>> I created a new user account on the 3 pc.
>>> Same name, same password.
>>>
>>> So now I have:
>>>
>>> 3 Vista PC
>>> 3 different administrative accounts (one per PC)
>>> 3 same name/password normal user account (one per PC)
>>>
>>> Still I'm asked for user name/password every time I try to access a network
>>> share after a reboot.
>> Then check your permissions on the share. Set it to Everyone.
>
> Share-permission: everyone = read
> administrators = full controll
>
> ntfs-permission: everyone = read & exec
> administrators, SYSTEM = full controll
>
> Just out of curiosity .... why it should be a permission problem?
> When I provide the user/password of the new "3-PC-same user" I *can
> correctly access* the share .... I'm just asked for the user/password every
> time ....

It was a WAG because I can't see your system. I gave you the most common
reasons for the error you're getting but of course it isn't possible for
me to know with 100% accuracy what you're doing, not doing, or doing
wrong. And you *are* doing something wrong, but it isn't obvious from
your newsgroup posts what that is.

So let's recap - Vista Home versions will not cache passwords. If you
have the *exact* same user accounts/passwords on all Workgroup machines,
no request for authentication will be made. If this isn't working for
you, something is wrong on your end. Perhaps it would be worth it for
you to have a knowledgeable friend or computer professional come on-site
and set you up. A fresh pair of eyes is always a good idea.

I really don't have any further suggestions for you since I can't see
your machines. I'm sorry that I was unable to help you. EOT for me.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

"Malke" wrote:

> So let's recap - Vista Home versions will not cache passwords. If you
> have the *exact* same user accounts/passwords on all Workgroup machines,
> no request for authentication will be made. If this isn't working for
> you, something is wrong on your end. Perhaps it would be worth it for
> you to have a knowledgeable friend or computer professional come on-site
> and set you up. A fresh pair of eyes is always a good idea.

I found out that disabling "check password shares" in connection center
solves my problem.

But if I enable it, even if I have the same account/password in every pc, it
still asks me for a password (the account is remembered).

NOTE: the 3-pc common user account is not the same as the user logged on!