I've had this problem, and I've solved it adding the logon credentials to the Control Panel / Stored User Names and Passwords (this is for a Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 host. There's the same thing in Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 but it may be called a little different, like just "Users and Passwords". Sadly I don't have an English Windows 7 host at the moment).
You can also obtain the same results with the command line using net use
. For example if you need to add a share called SHIRE\Baggins (@Will Martin nice example! :) ) to a device called S: you type:
net use S: \\SHIRE\Baggins <password> /USER:<domain>\<user> /SAVECRED /PERSISTENT:YES
(<password> <domain>
and <user>
are obviously just placeholders for the actual logon data.)
This should mount the share AND add the logon credentials to the "Stored User Names and Passwords" control panel applet.
I hope this helps.
3Alternative method: Instead of deleting and re-mapping all network drives, you can use the "Credential Manager". If it already contains something like "MyComputerName\Baggins", then edit it to "SHIRE\Baggins". If nothing is present, just add "SHIRE\Baggins". – Martin J.H. – 2014-01-24T10:33:49.647