Networking
Mapping Drives

The University of Findlay's College of Education

Sometimes it is convenient to have a network resource associated with a drive letter. If a student's network home directory is always mapped to H:, it easy for the teacher to say "save that on your H drive".

To map a drive, right-click the network resource and select Map Network Drive.

This will bring up the dialog box that lets you select the drive letter to use. you may have up to 26 mapped drives. Each letter can only be used once.

You may also choose to check the Reconnect at logon box. This will re-connect you to this network resource each time you logon to this computer.

If you are at the command prompt, you can type a command that will do the same thing. The "typed" command is especially useful if you are using login scripts.

The following commands will connect to the HighSchoolServer with IP address 192.168.1.1 and map the Homework share to H:.

NET USE H: \\HighSchoolServer\Homework

OR

NET USE H: \\192.168.1.1\Homework