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Vista Home Premium demands user name & password
Brand new ReadyNAS Duo v2 configured as out of the box. So default shares, Media and Backup, both access = all and everyone read/write. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit PC can access shares without use...
Kossboss, thanks for taking the time to reply.
I've already been searching the Vista forums as you suggested.
As you say, different versions of Windows behave differently. It seems to be a feature of Vista that it prompts for credentials to access a public share when W7 doesn't.
Some versions of Vista allow network passwords to be stored (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Network Passwords) as does W7 (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Credentials). But In Vista Home Premium the option to create a Windows log in when you try to add a password is greyed out.
Some Vista forum contributors recommend a registry edit to enable the option but I think registry editing is best avoided by an amateur like me!
Unfortunately the persistent parameter for the net use command you suggest does not save the connection and restore it at next logon as it is supposed to.
You could, however, execute the net use command at logon by putting it (without the persistent parameter) in a batch file in the startup folder.
But if I have to use an executable file in the startup folder to map a drive at logon I prefer this VB script that I found (I renamed my NAS "ReadyNAS" and created a user):
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "N:", "\\ReadyNAS\share", , "username", "password"
It's working well so far. Thanks to Win2Kuser in the Tech Support Guy forum for that:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/602929-vista-home-premium-network-passwords.html
Thanks again for your help, kossboss.
I've already been searching the Vista forums as you suggested.
As you say, different versions of Windows behave differently. It seems to be a feature of Vista that it prompts for credentials to access a public share when W7 doesn't.
Some versions of Vista allow network passwords to be stored (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Network Passwords) as does W7 (Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage Your Credentials). But In Vista Home Premium the option to create a Windows log in when you try to add a password is greyed out.
Some Vista forum contributors recommend a registry edit to enable the option but I think registry editing is best avoided by an amateur like me!
Unfortunately the persistent parameter for the net use command you suggest does not save the connection and restore it at next logon as it is supposed to.
You could, however, execute the net use command at logon by putting it (without the persistent parameter) in a batch file in the startup folder.
But if I have to use an executable file in the startup folder to map a drive at logon I prefer this VB script that I found (I renamed my NAS "ReadyNAS" and created a user):
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "N:", "\\ReadyNAS\share", , "username", "password"
It's working well so far. Thanks to Win2Kuser in the Tech Support Guy forum for that:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/602929-vista-home-premium-network-passwords.html
Thanks again for your help, kossboss.
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