Failing to Remember Windows Credentials

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Greetings,

As the title states I’m having a weird issue with storing credentials in Windows.
I have mapped my drive to Windows Explorer and have no issues when I logged in the first time and entered my password.

However despite selecting Remember Credentials I am asked to login every time I turn off/on my computer.

From the image below you can see the Zimablade IP seems to store the credentials every time I login instead of maintaining the login(?)

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Am I doing something wrong with the mapping or am I potentially missing a setting in ZimaOS? I only recently swapped over from CasaOS so ZimaOS is a little new to me.

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This isn’t a ZimaOS issue.

Windows does not reliably persist SMB credentials when a share is mapped by IP address. Each reboot, \\<IP> is treated as a new target, so Windows keeps creating new credentials instead of reusing one.

Fix:

  • Delete the existing IP-based entries in Windows Credential Manager
  • Remap the share using the hostname, not the IP
    \\zimablade\share

Once mapped by hostname, credentials persist normally across reboots.