Geeky Computer Question About Network Drives

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what do you do if you need to connect to more than 26 network drives?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

alright, so I mean, a floppy drive, a hard drive, a CD-ROM drive and (since there's not normally a drive B:) 22 network drives. I have most of the letters mapped and I need most of them most days. Is there any alternative, other than disconnecting from one and connecting to another on the same letter?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

buy a mac/run linux

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew it wasn't going to be long before someone suggested using a different operating system! But just suppose you can't or don't want to.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, I honestly don't know although I have wondered. Can you map drives to AA:\ or similar.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

that's exactly what I was wondering!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no way.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

which is a bit pathetic isn't it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

welcome to computing 80s style

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

You'll be wanting to address more than 640K of memory next.

― robster (robster), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Just don't map the drives. I mean, you don't need to, do you. (Unless you're some sociopath still running Novell under MS-Dos) With all modern Windows applications you can use the \\hostname\share format to access shares.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

but that is tedious, mapping dives means that they're there all the time, and you don't need to remmeber hostnames/ip addresses.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely it's easier to remember hostnames than drive letters? Eh, if you have trouble remembering hostnames or IPs set up a few shortcuts on your desktop or something.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I can call mapped drives whatever I like.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

XP I don't think has mapping to letters, just to named folders in the network places folder. Just like on a mac.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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