Automatic login using WinXP PC

[Johnbu]

Hi,

I use Windows XP PCs and ReadyNAS Duo v2.

Each time I reboot the Win XP PCs, I have to type in the password to connect to the NAS.

How can I get the PCs to automatically connect to the on the NAS (anonymous access turned off) without typing in the password?

The login and password was created in Security as a User.

WinXP saves the login details, but not the password.

I tried to add the IP address of the PCs under Share> Share Access but still no luck.

I also set the PC account User ID and Password to match the NAS User ID and password.

I'm not sure if this is a WinXP issue or a NAS issue. I haven't got access to a non XP Computer to test if another OS has the same problem.

I appreciate any help.

[chirpa]

http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/share/ho ... on_startup

[Johnbu]

Many thanks.

I'll give it a go.. I haven't wrote a batch file since I Windows 95 was released 😮

[Johnbu]

Sample is e: \$hostname\$sharename $password /u:$sharename /persistent:no

I can't seem to get it to run in CMD correctly:

x: \\nas-BE-95-57\backup qwerty123 /user:David /persistent:yes

Where:
x is mapped drive
nas-BE-95-57 is the NAS name
backup is the folder on the NAS
qwerty123 is the password
David is the user

Can anyone see any issues, when I run x: \\nas-BE-95-57\backup qwerty123 /user:David /persistent:yes it just brings up a box to log into the NAS (I'm assuming because the command starts with x: )

[chirpa]

Needs to have 'net use' at the beginning.

[Johnbu]

Thank you, for some reason I left it out.

The command worked on some PCs and not others.... hmmmm.

Then, all of a sudden the NAS locked out certain PCs out of the main share folder! the NAS just wouldn't allow the PCs to connect to the main share folder, even using the login/password that works from a different PC.

I ended up having to migrate the data into new shared folder and then using the new folder as the main folder and remapping x: to the new shared folder.

Anyway all is good. All but 1 PC now automatically connects. Interestingly the only PC that now doesn't had previously been able to automatically connect to the original drive!!

I left alone, I bet it something else will go wrong if I attempted to fix it! lol towards to the end I was over it.

Oh yeah, then the NAS decided not to allow certain PCs to write on the drive... hmmm read/write permission was enabled for everyone. I ended up fixing the issue by using the Reset Permissions function.

What a nightmare for the home user who thinks he knows a little bit about PCs (me)! lol...