Save user/pass Mapped Drive

[AU]

Hello,

I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server which is stand alone on our network, I
want to use something like a robocopy to automate the process of moving files
from that server to our file server which is on the domain.

I create a share on the file server and specfiy that only the domain admins
can access this share. I then go to the server which is stand alone and map a
network drive z to the share, I specfiy to connect with the domain cretionals
and I save the user/pass.

The share connects and maps fine the first time but everytime I restart I
have to constantly keep puttign in the domain user/pass even tho I have it
set to save it.

Why is this?

And I cannot add that stand alone server to the domain, otherwise I would
have done that

 

[Jammy]

RE: Save user/pass Mapped Drive

I had this similar issue previously and my work around though crude worked
fine.

create a batch file with something along the following

@echo off
net use x: /del
net use x: \\COMPUTER\SHARE /USER:domain\useraccount /PASSWORDassword
/PERSISTENT:NO
robocopy blah blah blah
pause

there are ups and downs to doing it this way. downs is the security of the
bat file with a domain account but that can be worked around by dropping the
domain admin attributes and using NTFS ACL's to secure the directory.

Enjoy, Good luck.

Jammy

"AU" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server which is stand alone on our network, I
> want to use something like a robocopy to automate the process of moving files
> from that server to our file server which is on the domain.
>
> I create a share on the file server and specfiy that only the domain admins
> can access this share. I then go to the server which is stand alone and map a
> network drive z to the share, I specfiy to connect with the domain cretionals
> and I save the user/pass.
>
> The share connects and maps fine the first time but everytime I restart I
> have to constantly keep puttign in the domain user/pass even tho I have it
> set to save it.
>
> Why is this?
>
> And I cannot add that stand alone server to the domain, otherwise I would
> have done that