Mapped Drive Path

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Wohlhut

I have mapped a network drive as my H: drive, but now the
SA needs the letter H: to create a private home drive. I
have over 2000 computers and 12 servers. How do I find
out the original path of the mapped drive? My SA is not
sure either. Can this even be done?
 
Greetings --

Have you tried single left-clicking on the "H:" drive's icon in
the My Computer folder and reading the path that's displayed as part
of the volume name? Unless you've gone to great lengths to disable
the feature, each mapped network drive will be clearly labeled
something like "sharename on computername (H:)"


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Yes, unfortunatley I have renamed the default name to something else. When I left click on it it says "Fire Studies (H:)". I need to remap it to the I: drive, so computer services can map my private home drive as an H: drive. If I delete or diconnect the mapped H: drive (Fire Studies), I will not know where this information is stored on the network. It could take days to find this information again.
 
If you go to a command prompt and type

net use <enter>

what do you see for H?

Moving forward, your domain should be using login scripts that delete &
remap all drives, with the /persistent:no switch - no locally mapped drives
should be used. Avoids problems like this in the future.
 
Lanwench,

That worked awesome. I also found another way by accident. If you select Tools/Disconnect Network Drive... from any folder it will ask you which drive to disconnect. I found the H: drive and the path to it. Thanks for all your help.

Wohlhut
 
Glad it's resolved - thanks for posting back.
Lanwench,

That worked awesome. I also found another way by accident. If you
select Tools/Disconnect Network Drive... from any folder it will ask
you which drive to disconnect. I found the H: drive and the path to
it. Thanks for all your help.

Wohlhut
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