Vista Home does not remember network password

Hi,
I just installed Vista Home and i am unable to have windows remember the password to my network drives. This happens for a samba as well as a standalone network disk. It keeps asking me for the password after each reboot. Vista is not in a domain, it is just a workgroup.

I tried the following methods:
- Explorer->Map network drive. Enter password, check tick box 'remember password; Use the drive; Reboot; Asks for password..
- Browse network, click on the drive; Enter the password and check the 'remember password' box; Then map the drive, use it; Reboot; Asks for password..
- Control panel->User Accounts->Manage your network passwords. It only lets me add 'A website or program credential'. I am not allowed to create a 'Windows logon credential'. Created one anyway but it still keeps asking for the password

Now I created a batch file in my startup folder that map the network drive:
<code>
net use K: \\Server\Share /persistent:yes /user:me password
if errorlevel 1 pause
</code>
But I really do not want to do that for a number of reasons: 1) my passwordis stored in clear text on my computer. 2) When switching users, this might lead to problems for certain username/drive mapping combinations.

I know that not remembering the network password was a known bug in windows 95/98. I know that it 'sometimes' was a problem on windows XP Home edition.
But please, please tell me that this has been fixed in the Vista Home edition.

Sorry for my lengthy post, but i have been searching the internet for weeks now and I cannot seem to find solutions to this problem. Does someone know how to solve this?

Nobody has a solution? Or at least confirm my findings?

It sounds like you forgot to create matching user accounts/passwords on all the systems. If you do that, you won't be asked for credentials when trying to access shared resources. For Linux, you also need to add the users to Samba Users with smbpasswd -a.

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Make answered your question nicely as usual. For a little more explanation, note that Home Versions of both Windows XP and Vista cannot save credentials. This is often confusing because Microsoft ineptly includes the 'remember password' checkbox in the home versions and Windows simply ignores it.

An alternative to creating matching users is a start up batch file in the form of net use [X:] \\servername\sharename /USER"username password (X is optional drive letter.)There are 2 issues with this however. Firstly the password is exposed and in Vista it needs to be run through task scheduler to circumvent UAC in order to execute on startup.