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    Help with Vista and Network Drive

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by djtoodles, Oct 6, 2008.

  1. djtoodles

    djtoodles Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    I have a linksys wrt610n and running vista home premium. On the linksys i have my external hdd hooked up to it and on my vista machine everytime i turn the computer on i always have to enter the password to access the drive.

    When i set it up i selected save name and password but whenever i reboot it remembers the admin name but not the password. Is there a way to fix it so it remembers it all the time? It gets annoying when ill open winamp to play something and i hit play 50 times before remembering i have to go click the drive and enter the password.
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Are you talking about the UAC prompt?

    Are you on an administrator account?

    Try turning off Media sharing and Password protected sharing..
     
    flipfire, Oct 6, 2008
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    Vista intself makes me type the password upon reboot to enter the harddrive. I am an admin on the pc yes there is only 1 account. And the linksys router the hdd is setup as admin.
     
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    anyone? i have been trying to google it and seems i must be the only person with this problem.
     
    djtoodles, Oct 8, 2008
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    That doesnt seem to be the problem. The drive works fine its just vista itself ask me to type the password of the HDD everytime. i dont see how that is a problem on the router.
     
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    Router security for the drive. Have you double checked it?
     
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    Re-read the thread I linked - the router requires the user to log into the drive (enter username/password - like you do). It's not the drive, it's the router controlling access to the drive that is the problem.
     
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    but wouldnt vista storing the password mean whenever i turn my computer on and the linksys router ask for user name and password it would automatically enter them?
     
    djtoodles, Oct 13, 2008
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    _Vista probably sees it as another system on the network, and is asking for authentication credentials so that it can provide them to the other "system" if/when it asks for them.

    Do you have simple file sharing enabled or not?
     
    Shyster1, Oct 13, 2008
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    No. Please - read the entire thread I linked (and then search the Linksys forums for similar threads).
     
    kegobeer, Oct 13, 2008
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    Those linksys forums are retarded they dont really make it easy to find any information but i guess ill take your word for it :).
     
    djtoodles, Oct 14, 2008
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