Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

How to set up auto log on to server?

  • 24-01-2007 08:47PM
    #1
    Pongo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭


    Ok, I've got a PC acting as a server for 3 others, all running WMCE, the server has all my DVDs and music on it, all other PC's access it for content. All is running perfectly, but everytime I want to access the share folders on the server I have to log on, enter a password etc. Is there anyway of accessing the server automatically without entering passwords? Each PC on the network has it's own account set up on the server, I assume it's fairly straightforward, any help much appreciated...


Comments

  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,946 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    how did you mount thr drives originally? Idi you do it manually through IE?

    If the credentials on the client (username and password) match those on the server it should mount automatically on startup.

    Disconnect the network drives on the client machine
    Ensure the logged on username and password is identical to the share account
    Open an ie window and type for example: //192.168.1.50 to get a list of avail shares on server
    Right click the drive you want and select "map network drive", check the automatically mount when I login checkbox and you should be golden.


  • #3
    Pongo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭Pongo


    Gotcha... Had a feeling I was doing something dumb! If I'm not mistaken I'm using different credentials to log into the server, will check it out later but I reckon that's it.... Thanks a mill....


Advertisement