Local Drive <apping

[bill freeze]

My hard drive uses C: and my CD Drive uses D:. When I
login to the network my E: is automatically mapped to a
network drive. I need to have my E: remain free so I can
use my digital camera for that drive when I plug it in to
my USB port. How can I tell my computer to use the F: as
the first network drive?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My hard drive uses C: and my CD Drive uses D:. When I
login to the network my E: is automatically mapped to a
network drive. I need to have my E: remain free so I can
use my digital camera for that drive when I plug it in to
my USB port. How can I tell my computer to use the F: as
the first network drive?

"login to the network" means what to you?
Domain?

If so, talk to your domain administrator.
If not, change the script you have running to map your drives.. You get to
choose the drive letter you know.

If it is coming back because of a persistence setting, then login to the
network (whatever that means) and disconnect the drive.. Reconnect it to
whatever drive letter you want and make sure the connection is persistent.
(Reconnect at Logon)

 

[Tom Porterfield]

My hard drive uses C: and my CD Drive uses D:. When I
login to the network my E: is automatically mapped to a
network drive. I need to have my E: remain free so I can
use my digital camera for that drive when I plug it in to
my USB port. How can I tell my computer to use the F: as
the first network drive?

When mapping network drives you can specify the drive letter in the mapping
command. Modify the login to map the drive as F rather than E.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[Bill Freeze]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Users login to
a NetWare 3.12 server and a MS NT 4.0 Domain. Currently
the only login script running is Novell's. In this
version of Novell the first available drive after the
local drives is mapped to a NetWare login directory. You
can specify which drive letters are mapped to which
network resources but the first available drive, in my
case the E:, is mapped to the NetWare login directory.
If I run the Novell Client instead of the MS client for
NetWare I can specify the "First Available Drive" but we
are migrating next Month from NetWare to Windows 2003
Server so I do not want to add any additional NetWare
related applications or resources.

 

[Martin]

My hard drive uses C: and my CD Drive uses D:. When I
login to the network my E: is automatically mapped to a
network drive. I need to have my E: remain free so I can
use my digital camera for that drive when I plug it in to
my USB port. How can I tell my computer to use the F: as
the first network drive?

Would it be easier to plug in your digital camera - whilst NOT logged on to
your network.
Goto Admin Tools > Computer Management.
Change the digital camera to a different drive letter - other than E:

Then have E: still as your mapped network drive?

(Just a suggestion).

Martin.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Users login to
a NetWare 3.12 server and a MS NT 4.0 Domain. Currently
the only login script running is Novell's. In this
version of Novell the first available drive after the
local drives is mapped to a NetWare login directory. You
can specify which drive letters are mapped to which
network resources but the first available drive, in my
case the E:, is mapped to the NetWare login directory.

Hi

See if this works for you:

Create a batch file that removes the drive mapping, and put the
batch file in your Startup folder so it is run automatically
when you log in.

--------------------8<----------------------
@echo off
net use e: /del
--------------------8<----------------------

 

[Bill Freeze]

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I could create a batch
file and place it within the Startup Folder but I was
hoping to be able to edit a registry setting for this
purpose.