I always make sure I have the share available to the client machine and that I have the correct credentials and permissions set before mapping network drives. Pick a Network Share to Mapįor this example, I will use my “NoDuplication” share on the PJK-WHS2 Hyper-V Windows Home Server Virtual Machine. Step 1: Locate the place on your server that you want to map as a network drive.
#Windows mapped drive windows 7#
To make things simple, This demonstration will use a Windows 7 machine to map a Windows Home Server share location. Here is a step-by-step guide to mapping a network drive. Luckily, Microsoft has made it easy to map network drives, and with products such as Windows Home Server, make it simple to set up share locations. Mapping network drives also tends to make saving documents and other tasks faster. The network location will have a drive letter instead of a potentially long path. When Windows is started, it will automatically re-connect to this network location.
The other, and potentially better way to regularly access information from a server is to map the shared folder as a network drive. For constantly accessed shared folders, a simple way of accessing the same folder immediately is to simply create a shortcut. Many users are familiar with Windows networking and browsing shared folders over a local network.
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