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Disk drive mapping is a common technique in which a disk drive letter on a network workstation is mapped (assigned) to a disk drive (or folder) located on a network server.

1. Go to the network server where the disk drive is physically located
2. Select My Computer
3. RIGHT click the disk drive icon that you wish to share
4. Select Sharing from the menu.

You will need to give a Share Name for the disk drive. It is suggested that you use the local drive letter followed by the word “drive” (e.g.“C-DRIVE or D-DRIVE). For ScotWeave use you should generally ensure that all users have Full access to the shared disk drive - this will enable users to read from and write to the shared drive.

You can allocate a password which must be entered each time a computer connects to the shared drive. This gives a degree of security but it is simpler if the need for a password can be avoided here. If you are using Windows® NT4 or 2000 then there are extra security and user accounts that will have to be setup in order to share a disk drive. Creating and maintaining Windows® user accounts is outwith the scope of this article.

1. Go to the workstation computer that you wish to use the shared drive
2. Select Network Neighborhood
3. Find the computer name of the computer used at “step 1” above
5. Double click on the computer name.
6. You will now see a list of available resources at the selected computer.
7. The disk drive name setup above should appear in this list
8. RIGHT click on the disk drive name
9. Select Map Network Drive from the menu
10. Choose a drive letter that you want to map to the drive
11.Ensure the Reconnect at logon box is ticked
12.Click on OK to complete the drive mapping.

You will now have a new drive letter available when you go to My Computer. This drive letter will be the disk drive or folder located at the remote computer.

For example, if the server computer was called \\SERVER1 and the workstation called \\CADPC2 and you have mapped drive letter F: to the D-drive located on the server, then the above process will create the following mapping

F: at \\CADPC2 is mapped to \\SERVER1\D-DRIVE