Thread: How to Map a Network Drive

As a result to this, we determined to produce this article in which we explain you how to make a drive mapping in Windows Vista.

For those of you who don't distinguish it, a drive mapping is a character allocated to a disk or else drive. The most frequent drive mappings are A: for the floppy disk plus C: for the major hard disk. If you are on a network, a drive mapping can indicate as remote drives to which you can give a message of your choice. Such as, you can make use of the letter Z: to pass on drive C: or else a network server or a detailed shared folder to which you have access to.

As you will notice for yourself, the process of making a map drive in Windows Vista is extremely easy. Just pursue these steps:

First, click on the My Computer shortcut from your desktop or else from the Start Menu. In the toolbar you will locate some buttons, as well as one called Map network drive.



Click on it and the Map Network Drive window will unlock. First of all, you have to allocate a drive letter for the connection and after that sort the drive or else the folder you want to hook up to.

The file can be situated on a remote server or PC you have access to, a FTP site or a shared file on your own PC.



If you want to hook up to a remote PC just type "\\" followed by the computer name or the IP address and then "\" followed by the location of the folder you want to connect to.

If you want to make a drive mapping to a file or else a folder on your own computer type "\\127.0.0.1\" (this stands for the local host) or "\\computer_name\" and then the path towards that file.

Every now and then, when you make a drive mapping, you may require making use of a unique user name as well as password that enables you to connect to it. In this situation, click on the Connect by means of a particular user name link.



Type the proper user name as well as password and click on OK. Now you will go back to the earlier window. Click on Finish and the drive mapping will be formed.

Whenever you access the My computer shortcut again you will notice that a new-fangled drive having the letter you assigned is scheduled as well as you can access it at anytime.