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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate and I have mapped a network share to a drive letter. The first time that I open the share, I am prompted for login credentials as expected. I do not select the "Remember my credentials" checkbox and can login successfully, but every time that I re-open the share during the session, I do not need to re-enter my credentials.

Is there any way to force a credential check every time that I re-open the share? I do not want to perform a reboot every time that I want to "re-lock" the share.

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  • I also tried right clicking on the mounted share after authenticating and select disconnect. The icon changes to show a big red X but then when I try to reconnect to the share, I get an error message that tells me X:\ refers to a location that is unavailable... Jan 11, 2012 at 2:58

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I don't think that there is necessarily a way to do this automatically. That may yield unexpected results each time you browse a folder or try to copy one (or multiple) files. However, you can look to see which network shares you have accessed and remove if needed.

I can see this valuable if you need to move away from your computer and do not wish to reboot to clear the sessions and/or if someone may hop onto your computer and you do not want them getting fancy with browsing your network and seeing a share with credentials already entered.

You can open a command prompt: Start > Run > CMD

Type rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

From here you can remove authenticated network shares so that the next time you will have to type in the credentials again. I know that this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but may be an alternative.

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    Because I am not clicking on the checkbox to save the credentials, the server does not show up in the Stored User Names and Passwords list. Jan 10, 2012 at 4:02
  • This just saved approximately two days of my nerves with clean Windows 7 installation not asking me username/password when trying to connect to already shared (and before re-install accessible) stuff on different computer in the same workgroup. Thank you, good sir.
    – Smuuf
    Mar 6, 2013 at 2:10
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Fire up a command prompt and do a net use. You will probably see a connection open the share and system you are connected to. Run net use \\server\share /delete to disconnect. You might also see a connection like \\server\ipc$ connected. You will need to close that as well. Once you completely close your connections, you should be re-prompted unless you saved your password.

You could put this in a batch file as well.

Another thing you could do is simply logout/login again. It should be faster then a full reboot.

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  • When I attempt to run the command net use \\server\share /delete (substituting my information) I receive the message The network connection could not be found. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2250. and the network share is not removed from the net use list. Jan 11, 2012 at 2:53

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