Windows xp does not save mapped drive password

Jeremy Jeremy 3 3 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Any particular reason why the XP machine can't be joined to the domain? That would seem to be the most obvious solution. There is a reason, though one could debate whether it was a good reason. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Joining the domain is the best answer.

The following works but isn't secure. Reboot the workstation and test again. Improve this answer. Ed Fries Ed Fries 1, 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I use a. Good idea. One small wrinkle I have is that sometimes this machine needs to connect to the share over a VPN, so the share is not actually available until then.

Maybe a shortcut or something on the desktop to remap? I will try this if I cannot get it onto the domain. Try adding the credentials as stored credentials if there are none listed. It worked for me. See if this solution works for you by signing up for a 7 day free trial. What do I get with a subscription? With your subscription - you'll gain access to our exclusive IT community of thousands of IT pros.

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Who are the certified experts? How quickly will I get my solution? We can't guarantee quick solutions - Experts Exchange isn't a help desk. Should a drive be mapped using alternate credentials i. No entry appears in 'control userpasswords2' Manage passwords - 'rundll Identifies the user who established the connection to the shared directory.

The system adds a Drive letter subkey to the registry when a drive is mapped and Reconnect at Logon is selected. Have a try this tool. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, but the network recovery tool just showed the same info as the Manage passwords console.

Another way to see this is to look on the machine that is hosting the shares. Best Regards, Sunny. Hi ArunSrinivasa ,. Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread. I have done a test in my lab. And here is the result for your reference. Please understand that we do not have such Windows XP device for testing, so I prepared windows clients with later OS.

I created a shared folder on the Workgroup Windows device and shared the folder to everyone. And I tried to access the shared folder from domain joined device successfully with entering the administrator account of Workgroup device. And then I can created map drive of the shared folder on domain joined machine successfully. Besides you cannot create a map drive on Windows 10 client, may I know if you could access the shared folder on XP device directly?

If you couldn't access the shared folder directly, what's the error message? I would like to know if the userid and password for the XP machine is the administrator account of XP machine?

The XP userid and password that I am using belong to a user account that is listed as "Computer Administrator".