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Mapping Network Drive - 5/16/2005 11:17:36 AM   
  adamgleiss

 

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Status: offline 		Hello and thanks to anyone in advance for any assistance. I am writing a script that maps four network drives. When you run the script it does this successfully but if you restart the computer you have to reenter the username and password for each network drive.

WShNetwork.MapNetworkDrive DriveLetterY, corp5Path, "True", username, password

I know the "True" paramter is supposed to persistantly map the drive each time a user logs on but how about a drive that requires a username and password? If you manually map a network drive you never have to reenter your username or password. Any help would be appreciated.
 
 
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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/16/2005 11:30:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Whenever you map a persistent connection with alternate credentials, by default, you will be prompted for those credentials with each subsequent logon. There are ways to cache the credentials, but it is a better course of action to find a solution that would allow the connections to be mapped using the current user's credential.

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/16/2005 11:46:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		to elaborate on what netmarcos said, you are probably running the script under different login credentials than what are being used to login to the computer on restart. Windows will be wanting the username and password of the login that created the drives, which in this case is whatever you used in the script.

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/17/2005 3:28:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the quick response. I can not use the current user credentials the way things are set up. That is true that the username and password are different for restart than for accessing the network drive, so how exactly do I cashe the credentials that I provide the in the script? Are there registry keys assigned for username and password of a mapped network drive?

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/17/2005 4:14:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		well, its hard to tell how youre using the script, but if you put the script in the startup folder of the 'all users' profile, it will run for every user that logs in. if running a vbscript out of the startup folder is unacceptable, you can run it remotely via a bat or cmd file, or if you are in a domain environment run it off the domain controller. there are a multitude of different options.

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/17/2005 4:15:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		In the case of Windows XP, cached credentials can be managed through the User Account applet in Control Panel | Advanced tab | Manage Passwords.

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/17/2005 7:32:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here is my situation. I work in QA and we have a lab with machines dedicated for testing. Everytime we run a test the machine needs to have a "clean" os installed on it. I just want a script to map the drives we usually use. All the QA personel log on with the same generic login ID and password but need their own credentials to connect to the drives. My script( which is run off the desktop), prompts for username and password then connects to four drives, I just dont want to keep running the script each time the user (will be the same user each time) restarts the computer. The way netmarcos said about managing cached credentials in the User Accounts applet seems like the way to go if I could automate it once and not have to run the script again. Any ideas how to do that?

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/17/2005 9:57:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't believe "alternate credentials" are saved only per session and not permanently. If all they need is to access those shares, why not just give the generic userID read permission to the shares instead of messing around with alternate credentials ?

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/18/2005 3:03:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		The user will need more than read permissions when using theses drives and I don't have authority to delegate permissions. If you map a network drive manually in this situation, it does stay connected on restart so there has to be a way to script a permanent connection. There must be a place in the registry but I can not find it.

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Re: Mapping Network Drive - 5/18/2005 3:46:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		right, each time a system is rebooted and the user logs in, the HKEY_current_user section of the registry is rebuilt dynamically based on the profile settings of the user logged in, and this includes any drive mappings created under THAT USERS credentials. NOT yours. Again, the drive mapping was created using different credentials, and those are only included in HKEY_current_user when THAT user logs in. Like I said before, your best bet may be to include the proper user creds in your script like you originally did, and then put the script into the 'all users' startup folder. That way, when the system starts up, no matter who logs in the script will run, and hopefully the drives will map using the credentials hard coded into the script. If there are security problems with putting the creds directly on the machine, create a .bat or .cmd file in there instead that calls the script remotely.

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