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Mapping a shared drive onto my PC Account

If you have to map a drive as part of a class project or get access to some other stuff, here is the process to do it.

1. First click start and right click “My Computer” to get the “Map Network Drive” option, like so

2. Then select a letter which is available (you want to select something from Z:\ backwards since USB key drives etc gets assigned the lower letters). So in this example I select “Y:” and then enter the path to the folder, in this example it is “\\geoscdom.geosc.uh.edu\geol4331_project” (of course, you need to know before hand what this would be), then make sure “Reconnect at logon” is selected (only if you are going to use this drive again next time you logon) and then click finish. You may be prompted for a userid and password (if you don’t have access to the shared drive under you current logon credentials). Enter the userid and password and you should get a folder window with the shared drive contents.

3. When you are done, you can always disconnect your folder by the following procedure,