I bought a laptop for a family member. Since I wanted to avoid Windows 8, the only hardware/cost combination I could find came with Windows 7 Home Premium, no time to wait for a custom build and no desire to pay for an upgrade to Business. No problem, I have a couple of desktops here running that version.
Here’s the issue: My other Home Premium systems have no trouble maintaining a persistent server login, but all the house systems have the same password for system and server login.
The laptop is for field use, so I want to assign it a simple password, different from that user’s regular system and server password. When I map it to server drives, tell it to use other credentials, and enter the server password, it will connect… but nothing I can do will make it retain the connection after reboot.
I know the Win7 versions below Business and Pro are progressively crippled with respect to network functions (my netbook’s Starter won’t even let me map to network drives…), but as Home Premium works in one instance but not in the other, is this really a matter of Microsoft blocking the micro-function of retaining network login credentials? Or am I missing something else here?