Vista VPN uses wrong credentials for access to local network shares/drives
Using the FQDN will always allow correct access to your local network, but does not always present the correct credentials to remote systems. For example just create two simultaneous VPN tunnels to two different networks. Using the FQDN does not present the correct credentials to each network. Actually the Credentials Manager only remembers the last set of VPN credentials! There is a problem with Microsoft's Credentials Manager. It is not correctly determining which credentials to give to each resource. Remember under windows XP/2k/2k3 the credentials manager would correctly determine which set of credentials to use for each resource (regardless of FQDN or not). So this is actually a bug. How can we solve this because it is not always happening? Hotfix? (release date?)
September 20th, 2007 12:33am

I am having the same problem. I have locally mapped drives but once I establish a VPN (even if I disconnect that VPN), Vista forgets my credentials for my locally mapped drives.This is pissing me off big time.
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October 16th, 2007 4:58am

And two years later and two service packs later, I find this page via Google and see that I am still having the issue that was described above. Nice. Glad my department completely banned Vista.
July 22nd, 2009 4:24pm

Hi, I had the same problem and did some research in the internet and finally found a solution. I will post it here in the thread to make sure some other people can use the answer. The first link is to a thread here where I posted my request and the secound one is the solution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/3a8bc013-648f-4906-aa5e-f3ffb171694e?prof=required https://www.conetrix.com/Blog/post/Access-Domain-Resources-When-Connected-to-VPN.aspx#continue Best Regards Markus
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January 31st, 2011 8:27pm

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