I have a Windows 7 installation running in a VMware virtual machine. Within Windows, I mounted a network drive pointing to a Samba share within our local network, which is secured by username/password. However, although I told Windows several times to remember my login credentials (username/password) when it asked for them, Windows stored them only for the current session. This can be seen using Windows’ credential manager (Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\Credential Manager). Therefore, the data was lost after each reboot and I had to enter them again.
There is a simple (but strange) solution to this problem: Instead of entering just your username when asked for, enter SERVERNAME\USERNAME. Adding the server name as “remote domain” makes Windows think that you are located within a “trustworthy” enterprise environment. Then, your login credentials are stored persistently, thus surviving reboots. Thanks to Microsoft for this intuitive mechanism.
Thanx man! It worked. What i was looking for.