Windows 7 not remembering network drive password

Sign in to vote. Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 5, PM bug , sent feedback. Friday, January 16, AM. My laptop is domain-joined, btw. Friday, January 16, PM. It does the same for me. Forgets the drives every reboot. So I simply map them then dont restart, lol. Yeah, same issue here, it won't remember them forever, just for that session. Thursday, January 22, AM. Friday, January 23, PM. Is this a bug then?

Does anyone know any other work-arounds? Tuesday, January 27, PM. Wednesday, January 28, PM. Craig said: Same is happening for me as well. I've been working in a Windows environment for a long time, and have never had that problem with my users. Yep really Let's say a user need to connect to a network drive that he hasn't use for a long time and boom it does not work anymore!

Then we just disconnect that network drive delete the link and redo it. Sure it happen a lot and in a lot of different location and company too. It used to work for me in Vista and XP. It's jaw-droppingly rubbish to have to map each time. Isn't the whole point of mapping for it to be, well, mapped!? Friday, January 30, PM. I'm in the same situation, it works flawlessly in Vista and XP so it must be a bug. Not to worry, it will be fixed.

Saturday, January 31, AM. I have been having the same problem Thursday, February 5, AM. D-TrainCanada Your fix worked. Nice job, and thanks, I was getting sick of continually entering my credentials. Friday, May 15, AM. D-TrainCanada, This didn't work in my case. We are trying to map a Domain controlled share using different credentials than what the user logs in to the network with.

No matter how we set it up either as a Windows credential or as a generic credential the mapping fails upon reboot and the drive must be disconnected and remapped. I hope someone figures this out soon, or it may delay our roll out of Windows 7 in our Enterprise.

Thanks B. Friday, October 2, PM. Fix does not work in my case either and all computers are using the same credentials they use for user login, not different ones yet upon reboot it continually prompts for username and password of mapped drives ignoring the "remember my Update, We fixed the issue we were having here. It turned out that the mapping was for our FTP server and that box is not on the domain. We needed to include the box's name before the credentials just like if you are signing into a domain.

Wednesday, October 14, PM. Same here, it's driving me mad having to enter password all the time when I start a new session of VS studio using VSS web. Used to be able to save the password in the password manager, but that function doesn't seem to work anymore either Monday, October 19, AM.

Thanks B Thankyou!!!! This has been driving me crazy for weeks! Fred - your company needs to look at what they're spending their IT delivery dollars on my friend. What you describe is in no way normal. Tuesday, November 3, PM. The solution that puts the domain name first works. Thursday, November 19, AM. Thank you! Monday, November 23, PM.

None of the given advice has worked for me so far. What finally worked for me was 'net use'. Obviously, change Z: to whatever drive letter you want and modify the other fields to fit your situation. For some reason this method works, but the checkbox in the dialog window doesn't All that fancy aero graphics and it can't even do what the command line does.

Saturday, March 13, PM. Wednesday, June 2, AM. Thursday, June 10, AM. Monday, June 28, PM. Sunday, July 11, PM. Thursday, November 18, PM. Bit off-topic, but Cheers, G H. Monday, January 3, PM. Tuesday, March 22, AM. Bradley Elder The credentials Manager solved it for me! For some reason the wrong credentials were in the vault, changed them and it works like a charm now. Tuesday, April 19, AM. Saturday, April 30, AM. It's a problem with Home versions of Vista and W7, Pro and up works fine Friday, September 2, PM.

Thursday, September 8, AM. Ran into same problem - two levels to fix. Friday, March 2, PM. Turn off enable protected mode in internet options under the security tab.

Thursday, April 5, AM. Wednesday, May 2, PM. Which version of Windows? Home Edition or Pro? Doesn't work in Home Edition OK, this is what i did to get it working after trying other solutions. Sunday, September 2, PM. Which version of Win7? Home Edition? From a noob for noobs: This a solution for Windows 7 Professional users trying to map a network drive that uses log on details different to your Windows logon details.

Improve this question. Amin Sh Amin Sh 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. How are you creating these mapped drives and what solutions have you seen? There are two types persistent and non-persistent mapped drives which are you using? Do you get the same if you log out and back in or only with a reboot?

Just out of interest can you try to map with the command instead. See if that works better as you can use the persistent switch which is often more reliable than the GUI — CharlesH.

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Still relevant with Windows Add a comment. A regular command prompt is best. Thanks to charlesh above. Iain Iain 4, 2 2 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. I was having this problem with a Windows Server contacting an Azure file share.

Oliver Bock Oliver Bock 3 3 bronze badges. Go to Credential manager and clear cached credentials to the Synology, and then try connecting again. You would need to do this on each PC.

Thanks everyone for the support. Issue is resolved using the credentials manager. I confirmed it atleast on one computer for now. We have a couple of Users who have this problem too. It'll be fine for a while and suddenly the red 'X' will show up on a couple of mappings.

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