Cow Computing

10 Jun 5

Unlike Windows XP, mapping a network drive in Windows 7 is a nightmare. It is possible that during the mapping of a network drive, no matter how hard you try to enter your credentials or the drive is actually password-less, it still prompt you for a password repeatedly. This is annoying and is due to the security settings on Network Security. I shall introduce you two method to get around this annoying problem. *Do note that, for Windows 7 Home edition, the security setting is not available (RIDICULOUS isn’t it?), either you upgrade to Professional / Ultimate Edition or you could use Method 2 to achieve that (HURRAY!)

Method 1 (Windows 7 Professional / Ultimate Edition)

Under “Control Panel”, find “System and Security”
Open “Administrative Tools”
Double Click “Local Security Policy”
Expand “Local Policies”
Click “Security Options” and Scroll to find “Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level”
Choose “Send LM & NTLM, use NTLMv2 session security is negotiated” for the drop down.
Done. you can now map network drive as normal (like in XP)