Discontinued Product

Wieser Software Ltd

Autoshares Network
Connection Manager

Version 1.06 now available
Connect to password protected network storage automatically.
Works with Windows 7!

Frequently Asked Questions about Autoshares Network Connection Manager

The most frequently asked questions are listed below.

How do I get free updates to Autoshares Network Connection Manager?

Free updates are available to registered users from our registered users page at
www.wieser-software.co.uk/autoshares/regusers.shtml

How can I add a network folder to connect to?

Just navigate to the "C:\Program Files\Wieser Software Ltd\Autoshares" folder, or right click the icon on the desktop and choose "Open File Location".

Then double click autoshares.exe to allow you to configure the program

To add a shared location, just double click in a blank area.
To delete an item, so it is no longer connected at startup, just click on it and press the Del key on your keyboard
To modify an item, double click it and edit it as required.

My NAS keeps giving me error 86, "The specified network password is not correct." on Vista

With some SAMBA based network attached storage devices, it is not possible to connect. This is caused by a change in the security model under Vista. To alter this behavior, and let older authentication mechanisms work, you need to modify the registry.

To do this, run regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

For security reasons, your system probably has the value of LmCompatibilityLevel set to 3. In order for it to work, you will need to change it to either 1 or 2. For technical details on what this key is for, please visit this site for details on The Most Misunderstood Windows Security Setting of All Time.

Are there any command line options to the program?

Yes, you can change what the program does by adding additional parameters to the command line. These are as follows:

-connect Connect to all of the shares listed.
-register Set the program to start automatically when the current user logs in.

There are a lot of options available for network attached storage, though. Here are more storage devices with storages up to 1000 GB! And if you need a gigantic storage device again, here are some suggestions.

Who was this software written for?

The Cambridgeshire Deaf Association was expanding their staff, and wanted a cost effective way to share a limited number of PC's among all of them. Their IT budget was limited, so we proposed a network attached storage device to store all of the documents.

Many of the documents are shared among the staff, but they also wanted to have a publicly accessible PC on the same network. As a result, the shared documents had to be password protected.

Without a domain controller on the network, managing passwords can be difficult, so we wrote Autoshares Network Connection Manager for them.

The program starts up when each user logs on, and the passwords for the connected drives are stored encrypted in the system registry. Now their staff don't need to remember any passwords; the shared drives connect automatically.