Mapping a Network Drive
Accessing Network shares in a networked environment is common place. Often groups of people need to be able to access the same files and resources simultaneously so a server admin might designate a portion of a server as a network share.
In Windows, you can access this network share by typing the sharepoint into the address bar of My Computer or Internet Explorer. Example:
\\servername\sharefolder
However, perhaps your Windows username doesn’t have permission to access that share point, or perhaps you want to make sure you can access the sharepoint all the time without having to re-type it.
In My Computer, drop the Tools menu and select Map Network Drive…
Choose an open drive letter – z:, for instance – type the share name – \\servername\sharefolder and check the Reconnect at Login option if you want this drive to always be available to you.
If it is necessary to use a different logon to access this share, this can be done by clicking on the different user name link.
Here’s a question for you Kevin. I’m trying to set things up between two laptop computers that will allow our mapped drives to each other to work when we’re working remotely on someone else’s network. Can that be done? Everything works great when we’re in the office and on our office network, but we’re each an island of information and data when we’re onsite at a client and need to be working together.
Hi Jason,
I actually havent tried this myself but i think you need to remap the drives whenever you use a different network as you are using different network credentials from those of the client’s.
or use a diffrent set of mapped drives per network.
also, how do you connect to the network? do you basically plug in and work via dhcp? because it may be possible if both of your laptops are on the same subnet. any particular errors?