Hi I was hoping someone could help with a problem I am having with vista home premium.

I'm trying to set up 4 network drives connecting to various folders on a windows server 2003 system.

When Vista boots it does not connect to the drives, it seems to refuse to remember login credentials for them even when username and password is typed in and the 'remember my password' box is checked.

I got around this problem by creating a network drive and then using the connect using a different user name option and entering the username and password into there (thses options are unavaliable on an already established drive). This works flawlessly however it only seems happy to do this for one drive. If I try to set up another one like this I am presented with a request for a 'certificate' and an empty list of avaliable certificates.

This is really annoying me particularly vistas insistance in popping a balloon up at me each time I start windows gloating about how it failed to reconnect all the network drives.

Does anyone have a workaround for this, quite why I can get it working for one drive at a time but no more than that seems crazy. I have the same network drives working happily on a number of XP systems both home and professional.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/ [...] html?ltr=N


Technet info:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us [...] 05087.aspx

Hi Scott, I have network discovery on already from the first link.

Could you be more specific about what I am supposed to be seeing in the second link?

forgive me but I have spent a number of hours serching google and microsoft for answers to this problem and been presented with many similar lists. The problem being none of the content behind the links actually helps me with this. That is why I posted on here.

the 2003 is dc? if not you can just create on you 2003 same user as on your vista, and give him permitions on ms sharing. It shuld do the trick

Well I managed to get more network drives working just by repeatedly logging out, loggin back in again and repeatedly trying, even using the server ip adress rather than than name to connect. For some reason it just worked sometimes and other times it didn't there was no logical steps I can offer to reapet the process.

My issue now is connecting to exchange through outlook, which repeatedly askes for a password. I'm falling for the conclusion I should have gone with XP Professional or vista (business/ultimate). This not rememebring passwords thing is a feature of home premium apparently and one of the things disabled in the home versions.

Now my problem with this is had I know this I never would have got a PC with this issue, the information simply isn't avaliable in the Vista version comparisons microsoft offers. So basically the option open to me is to pay micro$oft £120 to upgrade this to premium just for the privedge of remembering a password it already claims it will remember. I really don't feel inclined to give them any more money.

If you are connecting to a server with a server OS, you should ALWAYS go with XP Professional or Vista Business / Ultimate. XP Home and Vista Basic / Home Premium don't have all the networking options you might require... (connecting to a domain, for example). Never, ever rely on Home editions in server environments... no matter what you've heard.