Vista Won’t Remember Network Passwords?
I keep most of my media on a centrally located MythTV box running Linux. I can share stream music to iTunes on my Mac by running mt-daapd and howl on my Linux box. With Windows XP, everything worked even better; all I had to do was access my music via a Samba share. Unfortunately with Vista that all changed. Vista would no longer remember passwords after a reboot. Some might say that this is inadvertently more secure.
Vista refuses to remember the passwords to network shares. It doesn’t matter if I check the, “remember this password” box or not. Things just won’t work. Thankfully there is a solution; you can tell Vista to remember a password by: Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage Your Network Passwords. Addresses for Samba shares should look something like this: “\\MythTV” Enter in the address to the computer you’re trying to access. Hint, if you don’t know the address, access the computer via the “Network” shortcut on your desktop, right-click in the address bar and select “Copy Address as Text,” or “Copy Address.” Paste either of those into the address location field. After you’ve filed the address field, enter the passwords and save out. The next time you restart Vista it should remember saved passwords.
Ernie Oporto wrote:
Thanks! I’ve been bummed out by this with Vista. We keep all of our music on one computer in our house, and inorder for me to connect to it to listen to it, I have to enter my password and user everytime! Now I don’t have too!!
Posted on 15-Jan-08 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
admin wrote:
Hey that’s great! I’m glad I’m not the only one who needed this work-around. Also, I like the set-up you have going here, but the media PC is conspicuously missing. http://www.shokk.com/gallery2/d/49439-2/P1020096.JPG
Posted on 15-Jan-08 at 8:47 pm | Permalink
Ernie Oporto wrote:
Hey again! Vista all of a sudden stopped remembering my passwords!! However, I just pulled the little trick again and everything is good again
Our media PC is in another room. We currently use Xbox’s running XBMC to stream our content from room to room.
Posted on 21-Jan-08 at 8:43 pm | Permalink
Paul Warner wrote:
This is all solved by going to manage your network passwords and either intering the server name (the domain name is not neccessary in a single domain environment) and intering the domain\username and password. You can add all servers by simply adding the * and the domain\username and password. Yippee!!
Posted on 28-Jan-08 at 6:01 pm | Permalink
sarvin wrote:
Hi Paul, I haven’t been using Windows lately. My Vista box has been relegated to some C# development in Visual Studio, but I’ll definitely have to give this a try.
Posted on 28-Jan-08 at 6:58 pm | Permalink