Group Policy Drive Mapping Vista

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As a consequence to this, we decided to create this article in which we show you how to create a drive mapping in Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Windows 1. For those of you who don't know it, a drive mapping is a letter assigned to a disk or drive. The most common drive mappings are A: for the floppy disk and C: for the primary hard disk. If you are on a network, a drive mapping can reference remote drives to which you can assign a letter of your choice. For example, you can use the letter Z: to refer drive C: or a network server or a specific shared folder to which you have access to. As you will see for yourself, the procedure of creating a map drive in Windows is very simple. Just follow these steps: In Vista, first, click on the Computer shortcut from your desktop or from the Start Menu.

In the toolbar you will find several buttons, including one called Map network drive. In Windows 7 and 8, click the . Then just click . Then click the . Now, you'll need to assign a drive letter for the connection and then type the drive or the folder you want to connect to. The folder can be located on a remote server or computer you have access to, a FTP site or a shared folder on your own computer.

If you want to connect to a remote computer just type . In this case, click on the Connect using a different user name link.

Type the appropriate user name and password and click on OK. Now you will return to the previous window. Click on Finish and the drive mapping will be created. If you access the Computer shortcut again you will see that a new drive having the letter you assigned is listed and you can access it at anytime.

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