Drive mapping is the process of replacing a network path to a folder with a letter. Imagine
we had a folder on a computer on a network, and its pathname was something like
\\my_computer\documents\excel\timesheets\2007. You could substitute all that with a
letter, T, for example. Then whenever you accessed the T: drive, it would take you straight
to the folder 2003.
Sounds great, doesn??™t it! Well, not quite. If we were to use this method for ScreamerNet,
we would have to map the path to the shared ScreamerNet folder to a letter on each computer.
The problem arises when a node computer tries to access a mapped drive on a computer
that is switched off or unavailable; the node
computer complains that the path can no longer be found.
This can be a problem if you are setting up ScreamerNet
in an office using your colleagues??™ computers, especially if
they don??™t know what the error message means! They will
soon tell you about it!
However, if you are intent on using this method for resolving
pathnames, here??™s how to map a letter to a pathname.
I won??™t be using this method for this tutorial because it
offers no benefits over UNC naming that I??™m aware of.
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