Once compiled into an executable, the username and password is fairly safe. Yes, there are very rare decompilers out there, but safe to the normal user community. I chose this method of VBS2EXE type applications since those applications have a tendancy to extract the data in pure text either in local folder or temp folder. This method extracts to memory.
Once compiled, take the execuatable and apply with a scheduled task so that the mapped drive will be available regardless of user logon.
Tested and works.
;Places the input box in the top left corner displaying the characters as they
;are typed.
MsgBox(49, "Drive Share Access v1.0", "This utility will create the following share " & @LF & _
"SERVERNAME\Share to Drive L " & @LF & @LF & _
"This box will time out in 10 seconds", 10)
; Disconnect
DriveMapDel("L:")
; Map X drive to \\myserver2\stuff2 using the user "MyName" from "domainx" with password "MyPassword"
DriveMapAdd("L:", "\\SERVERNAME\Shared", 0, "MYDOMAIN\mynameis", "mypasswordis")