File URI with username and password in Explorer

Question

How to specify file URI with user name and password in the (Windows File) Explorer, please?

Something like file://domain\user:password@host/dir/file. I need to specify domain to be equal host name, because domain user name is used instead.

It is possible to write file://host/dir/file and fill credentials in interactive dialog, but an automated process is to be designed.

When URI starts with smb: or cifs: then Explorer writes "No program associated…".

Answer 1

You could store the credentials (pw and username) for a host in the Credentials Manager in the control panel (Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager for Windows 8.1 but this goes all the way down to at least Vista). That way you needn't provide the credentials with the URL.

(Where do you specify this? It is a no-no to store passwords in plain text.)