Mapping network drives using Group Policy preferences is flexible, provides easy control over who receives the drive mappings, and has easy-to-use user interfaces, all of which are in stark contrast ...

You might wonder why there is a need to map OneDrive as a network drive when you can sync it instead. There are many scenarios where synchronization is not necessary. For example, in a multi-user ...

The ability to automatically assign a drive letter to a remote drive and release the assignment when the application no longer needs it. In the PC world, this was especially useful in the early days ...

You can turn an external hard drive into a network drive to access your files, even when your computer is turned off. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of personal tech ...

The previous tutorial in this series demonstrated how to create hidden shares so others on the network are unable to see them. This tutorial continues the discussion on advanced sharing techniques, ...

I will never fault someone for asking a tech question that feels “basic,” because we all had to get our start somewhere. Few of us popped out of the womb knowing how to access a network share in ...

Long story short, I need to map a drive on a Win2k8R2 server so that a service can access it. It sounds like one way to make this happen is to create a service that does the drive mapping, then make ...

i have a client machine running windows 2000 and i want it to map to a windows xp pro drive over my network. when i click on the shared drive on the xp pro from 2k it says enter login and password but ...

The CyberNet weblog details a reliable Windows standard: How to map an FTP drive in Windows Explorer using the Map Network Drive dialog. It's a very simple process provided you've already either got a ...

So long as you first obtain an on-campus IP (or through a VPN which gives you an on-campus IP), you can map a drive folder to UBfs shared location (e.g., MyFiles, Collab) on your Windows computer.