{"id":437,"date":"2012-06-13T03:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-06-13T03:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T11:48:47","slug":"win7-mapped-drives-reconnection-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2012\/06\/13\/win7-mapped-drives-reconnection-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Win7 mapped drives reconnection problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drive mapping with XP was incredibly easy.
\nIt’s kind of broken in Win7, at least it’s not done the same way.<\/p>\n

In Win7 you cannot save the password when you map a drive using a different user than the logged in user. (You can map the drives as described below but you will always have to enter the password\u00a0 though the username will persist)<\/p>\n

This command line should work (it did in XP)
\nnet use x: \u00a0\u00a0 “\\\\12.12.12.1\\shared folder name”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user:workgroup\\username\u00a0\u00a0 password\u00a0\u00a0 \/persistent:yes<\/p>\n

That command line should work, but Win7 will not remember the password.<\/p>\n

There are two things I tried without success:<\/p>\n

First, in the Group Policies Editor (start orb type “gpedit.msc<\/em>“, then open each of the following items in turn:<\/p>\n

Computer Configuration
\nWindows Settings
\nSecurity Settings
\nLocal Policies
\nSecurity Options<\/p>\n

Right-click on the \u201cNetwork security: LAN Manager authentication level\u201d policy item, and then, from the context (pop-up) menu, select \u201cProperties\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now select the \u201cLocal Security Settings\u201d tab, and then, in the dropdown box, locate and select \u201cSend LM & NTLM \u2013 user NTLMv2 session security if negotiated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now when you log off and log in again Win7 will remember the password (again, unless you are logging in as a different user).<\/p>\n

If that doesn’t help then here’s a command prompt or batch file script (watch for line wraps) to create a credential (you could do a similar action with Credential Manager) :<\/p>\n

_____Command line first creates a mapped drive then creates the credential____________________<\/p>\n

net use x: \u00a0\u00a0 “\\\\12.12.12.1\\shared folder name”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user:workgroup\\username\u00a0\u00a0 password\u00a0\u00a0 \/persistent:yes<\/p>\n

cmdkey\u00a0\u00a0 \/add \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \\\\12.12.12.1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/user:workgroup\\username\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/pass:password<\/p>\n

rem >>>> You should have seen “success” after each of the commands
\npause
\n___________________________________<\/p>\n

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Drive mapping with XP was incredibly easy. It’s kind of broken in Win7, at least it’s not done the same way. In Win7 you cannot save the password when you map a drive using a different user than the logged in user. (You can map the drives as described below but you will always have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}