USB Drive and Windows XP

[Old Timer]

I am embarrassed to bring this up since I had the solution before, but lost
it with a hard drive that self destructed:

I have a USB drive, which I do not use all the time, and want the network to
recognize it each time I boot it up. However, each time I use the drive I
have to reset the shares etc for the network. Is there a method of having a
network recognize a USB drive on the fly?

Windows XP Home & Professional, Windows networking and PCMACLAN.

The last time I asked this, there was a bat file that took care of it.

Thanks, all.

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

Hi -

Sure there is

From a command prompt, type 'net help share' and 'net
help use' for help on how to share and map drives from a
command line. Both are easily used in batch files.

For instance, if you wanted to share your pen drive
(we'll assume your pen drive is drive e: and use the
share name "pendrive") you'd stick this in a batch file
and put a shortcut to the batch file in your startup
folder -

net share pendrive=e:\

On the workstations you'd do a different batch file -
let's assume you want the 'pendrive' share mapped as
drive p:

net use p: \\computername\pendrive

Hope this helps!