Mapping Network Drive

[Guest]

Hi,

What is the difference between mapping network drive from My Computer and My
Network Places? Why I see different mappings in those two windows?

Thanks in advance!

Lisa

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hi,

What is the difference between mapping network drive from My Computer and My
Network Places? Why I see different mappings in those two windows?

Thanks in advance!

Lisa

Mapping a network drive assigns a drive letter to it, so you can
access the drive as if it were a local disk. For example, if you
assign drive letter F: to a network drive, you can refer to a file on
that drive directly as "F:\file". The mapped drive appears in My
Computer just like a local drive.

Accessing a drive in My Network Places doesn't assign it a drive
letter, and it doesn't appear in My Computer.
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[AJR]

There is no difference - just two ways of doing the same thing - for example
you can access control panel from My computer or Start menu your choice.

 

[Guest]

My Network Places allows you to keep shortcuts to network locations, even if
they are unavailable.

For example, I have a laptop which I use at home and also out and about. I
have some network storage at home which I have shortcuts to in My Network
Places. If I were to create Network Drives for the storage locations, every
time the laptop booted somewhere away from home I would receive errors about
not being able to connect network drives. My Network Places does not do this,
because it only tries to access the network when you request it to.

So they are slightly different in this respect, but ultimately, just 2
different ways to acomplish the same task.