Hi,

Big computer companies still sell desktop and laptop computers with Windows
XP Home to offices, where users suffer from it's missing ability to remember
network passwords. When you try to log into any server or domain there isn't
an option "remember password" as in Windows XP Pro.
That also means if one tries to connect with MSIE Windows XP Home laptop to
office
Sharepoint services, one has to enter the password each time without
remembering option in the "Connect to ..." user name and password dialog
box.

Is there any way to add "remember password" option to Windows XP Home?
Is there any good 3rd party application which might help?

If sellers could point out this missing capability, many users had chosen XP
Pro instead. Unfortunately it has turned out like a secret, which most
salesman haven't ever heard about and users next option is to buy a at least
full Retail XP Pro upgrade, as there isn't any other updates fro XP Home OEM
version.

Tia
Rina

rina wrote:

Show quoteHide quoteBuyers should be aware of what they are buying, particularly business
people.

XP Home cannot join a domain. The solution is to upgrade those XP Home
computers to XP Pro.

Malke

Unfortunately cached credential manager in XP Home will not remember
passwords to Domain Resources.

The same thing happens by default on Media Center computers, but this
can be changed.  XP Home cannot be changed.

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rina <peterh***@yahoo.com> typed:
Not to offices with cranky sysadmins who think XP Home is crap!

Show quoteHide quoteOne other option, clumsy and highly insecure though  it is, would be to set
up batch files with net use commands that would authenticate the users once,
so subsequent connections wouldn't ask.

net use x: \\server\share /user:DOMAINNAME\username password
or
net use x: \\computername\share /user:COMPUTERNAME\username password

People usually decide to buy a favourite toys without asking from sysadmins.
Now there is 3 laptops with XP Home and only after 3rd one, the missing
"remember password" came into people knowledge as XP Home built in
limitation. To be percise their purpose is connect to their office windows
sharepoint services over internet and not the domain at all.
Now they ask me to fix it and I believe it can  be done after some research.

Rina


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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rina <peterh***@yahoo.com> typed:
That's something to take up with your management - for reasons far beyond
what you're mentioning here.

Well, you could try what I suggested and see whether it works - if you don't
mind someone's domain credentials sitting there in a batch file for anyone
to see.

Or, the users who went out on their own and bought nonstandard stuff can
just learn to deal with the inconvenience of having to enter their
credentials. It might be a valuable learning experience for them.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but if you have a domain, it's best that you
have only domain-member computers connecting to it - and that they be locked
down, controlled by group policy, centralized antivirus software,
centralized account management, password policies, and so forth. If your
management doesn't understand that, there isn't much you can do, until
someone wants to do something and gets error messages - or someone brings in
a compromised laptop and does Very Bad Things to your network. I'd at least
make sure you have a 'paper trail' (electronic, of course) indicating you've
advised your management of this and recommended against it. Ultimately it's
their call, but you ought to do some CYA as well as advise them on the best
technological solutions for their network. Good luck; I know it's not easy.

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Loss of connection every 5 min
XP Pro can not join domain
password x for read, password y for write
Network access/logon to user vanishes and Guest appears in its place
Multicast
12 xp users LAN with router - static IPs better than automatic?
Modem Hijacking?
Router problems
Logon dialogbox.
Can't access shares from one node