There's a good discussion around dcpTool and untwisted/invariate profiles on Tom Lester's blog.
Well worth the read, and the examples are good, as well as the later discussion.
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I've been upgrading to the retail version of Windows 7 on my primary Windows machine, rather than the RC version, and found one major irritation - despite ticking the "Remember my credentials" tickbox when connecting to my Mac's shared folders, the user id and password simply weren't being remembered - I had to re-enter them after every reboot. Very irritating.
I tried entering the info direct into Windows Credential Manager - same result - a "Login failure" message on the first boot, and the credentials erased.
After a bunch of fruitless searching on the Web, and trying various obscure settings changes, it dawned on me that what was being stored in the Credentials Manager as a user id was actually WindowsServer\UserId, rather than just UserId that I had entered. Tie that to the "Login failure", and the solution is obvious. What is actually happening is not that Windows 7 is forgetting the user id and password, but that it is storing the wrong server name, then trying to log in with the wrong server name, failing, and erasing the user id/password pair as invalid. At a guess, I'd say this tied to the current Windows "theology" of single id across the network.
Solution: Rather than just enter your Mac user id on its own, enter the name of the Mac server as well as MacServer\UserId. E.g., IMAC\sandy. Windows then doesn't store the "WindowsServer", and magically everything works. The name of the Mac server is just the name as displayed in Windows Explorer.0Add a comment
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