Mapping a network Drive

rctneil · 3 May 2008 at 11:25

Hello,
I ahve never been able to successfully map a network drive and I am havinga go now and ahve my pc and an old pc sat next to me on the same network and it asks for a username and a password but none of the two pc have a password on them. Is the username or password different from the windows user accounts? or what?

oddjob62 · 3 May 2008 at 12:37

rctneil said:
Hello,
I ahve never been able to successfully map a network drive and I am havinga go now and ahve my pc and an old pc sat next to me on the same network and it asks for a username and a password but none of the two pc have a password on them. Is the username or password different from the windows user accounts? or what?

Make sure the username and password is the same on both boxes. a blank password will not be allowed network access.

rctneil · 3 May 2008 at 12:46

but what if I don;t want a password on my windows account? I just wnat to turn the pc on and it to go directly to the desktop and why do thr password have to be the same on both pc's?

IAmATeaf · 3 May 2008 at 13:22

rctneil said:
but what if I don;t want a password on my windows account? I just wnat to turn the pc on and it to go directly to the desktop and why do thr password have to be the same on both pc's?

In that case you can't connect to a network shared drive.

If the username/passwords are the same then it'll connect to the drive using those user credentials, if they are not the same it'll prompt for a valid username/password on the remote machine before connecting.

Burnsy2023 · 3 May 2008 at 13:57

rctneil said:
but what if I don;t want a password on my windows account? I just wnat to turn the pc on and it to go directly to the desktop and why do thr password have to be the same on both pc's?

You can put the credentials in the registry so that the PC auto logs on to the specified account.

Burnsy