Sign in with Pin with network drives

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2025-03-13

Microsoft does not support using PINs to authenticate connections to an Active Directory local network file server.

To bypass this while continuing to allow users to use their PINs, saving their credentials to the Windows Credential manager is required. This however means that if the users password is updated, the saved password has to be changed as well. This will automatically save if the user ticks the checkbox to remember their credentials when initially connecting to the network drive.

 

PSA: Having a PIN to sign into windows will prevent Network Drives (NAS) from showing up (or will show them as disconnected) : r/Windows10


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