Mapped Network drives, Disconnect after restart

Hi, i have a NAS which i have private shares on, i have mapped my share as a
network drive, selected logon after restart, entered my user name & password,
ticked the box that saves password. After that the network drive is
successfully mapped, however after logging off or restarting vista, vista
does not log back onto the networked drive, i have to click on it & re-enter
my password, before i can use it. Is there a workaround for this?

since you said that you were able to tick the box to remember the password I
am guessing that you use ultimate. A while back I was trying to do the same
thing, but since I have home premium, It wouldn’t let me check the box. so I
created a batch file that runs on startup. you can use the net use command
to map a drive

net use z: \\SERVER\share password /user:"USER NAME"
exit
(save is as something.bat)

replace z: with whatever you want the drive to be mapped to, SERVER with the
name of the computer that the share is located on, share with most likely c,
password with the obvious (not in quotations), and in the quotations after
user, the user name on the remote computer that you are mapping to (and of
course it must be that user name that corresponds to the password you
entered.
you can have this start on login by adding it in the scheduled tasks. when
it runs it will pop up a little cmd window while it executes the command. If
you would rather not see that, let me know and I can show you a little
script that makes it popup in the background. The only time that I have had
trouble with this is when I have manually mapped it and the script tries to
run again. to eliminate this problem, before you restart your computer once
you have added this to the startup list. delete the mapped drive and just
let this script take care of creating it from now on. hope this helps and
let me know if you need any more info.
guitardude


"Sim...." <Sim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B2475EF-6EB0-4FFC-A323-8A4DCFA8F9E0@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i have a NAS which i have private shares on, i have mapped my share as
> a
> network drive, selected logon after restart, entered my user name &
> password,
> ticked the box that saves password. After that the network drive is
> successfully mapped, however after logging off or restarting vista, vista
> does not log back onto the networked drive, i have to click on it &
> re-enter
> my password, before i can use it. Is there a workaround for this?

Are you using the same user name and password on the NAS as your Vista user
name and password?

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Sim...." <Sim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B2475EF-6EB0-4FFC-A323-8A4DCFA8F9E0@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i have a NAS which i have private shares on, i have mapped my share as
> a
> network drive, selected logon after restart, entered my user name &
> password,
> ticked the box that saves password. After that the network drive is
> successfully mapped, however after logging off or restarting vista, vista
> does not log back onto the networked drive, i have to click on it &
> re-enter
> my password, before i can use it. Is there a workaround for this?