The Vista Home edition doesn't remember the credentials. Create a logon
batch to map the drive. Or this post may help.
Vista doesn't remember mapped drives
Mar 27, 2008 ... I have a users using Windows Vista Home Premium. ...
Which version of Vista are you using? Home versions can't cache credentials.
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"leontet" <leontet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I just bought a new Lenovo 3000N200 laptop which came with Vista Home
> Premium preinstalled. I connected it wirelessly to my home network. The
> other
> PCs in this network are wired to the same ASUS wireless router and run
> WinXP.
> All the machines are in the same workgroup. The network profile of my
> Vista
> laptop is "Private".
>
> Everything works fine until I enable password protected sharing (file
> sharing ON, public folder sharing ON, password protected sharing ON) and
> reboot the machine. I mention the system is working as expected until
> reboot.
>
> After each reboot, I find both the file sharing and public folder sharing
> set to OFF. Of course, the shared folders are not accessible via network.
> I
> can set the two options back to ON and everything works fine again, but
> this
> is unacceptably annoying!
>
> If password protected sharing is set to OFF, file and folder sharing keep
> their ON state even after reboot. But I want the protected sharing - it
> fits
> my needs like a glove!
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on with my Vista machine??? I love
> the new network features in Vista, but this little malfunction is driving
> me
> crazy! Any input would be greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance!
>