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    Vista and network drives

    I have Vista Home Premium X86 on two computers, connected with wireless internet (g). Both have the same user (William if you must know) and password (I am not stupid ). I am trying to map a network drive from one PC (a USB disk) to the other.

    It works, and I can access the drive untill I reset, and it pops up saying cannot connect - details incorrect? This confuses me, as I have mapped it several times, and it did the same thing.

    When I go into explorer, and click the drive, after typeing in my password and username it accepts, and I can use it again.

    Also when accessed the drive for first time I did click the remember me box, but it does not remember me?

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    Re: Vista and network drives

    Did you check "Reconnect at logon"?

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    Re: Vista and network drives

    Try net use in a .cmd file in the startup folder or desktop instead.

    net use z: \\computername\share password /USER:username
    net use z: \\computername\share password /USER:domain\username

    If you want to input the password rather than remember it, remove the password. 2nd one is just for reference if you're on a domain.

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    Re: Vista and network drives

    Out of interest,

    Are you using the same username as the logon name for Windows?

    If so, are you using the same password as the network share is using?

    Windows has some issues with networks shares and passwords.

    Try setting your Windows password to the same as the network share, if its different, or just set it if you dont have one.

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