Map Network Drives - Windows PC

Windows - How to Map a Network Drive

To map a drive on a Windows system:

• Right click on my computer and choose Map Network Drive.
  
• When the dialog box appears, select a drive letter.
  ( The only instances when this really matters is when you utilize a program such as Dreamweaver that requires the same letter each time.)
• Enter in the share name of the space you wish to map.
  A list of possible share names can be found below under How to Map Specific Network Spaces.
  The most common spaces are these:
  - Personal File Storage: \\mhc\yourusername
  - Departmental File Storage: \\ambr\depts
  - Personal Website: \\www\yourusername
  - Departmental Website: \\www\web

• Assure that the "reconnect at login" checkbox is not checked.
  (This feature does not work on the MHC campus, and will cause invalid login attempts in the background.)
• Click the link "different user name", and proceed in entering in your mhc username and password.
  - Often, when people are unable to connect, it is because they are not clicking this option.
  - Be sure to not type any more than 8 characters for your password. (Windows networking only sees the first 8)
• Click OK to continue
• Click the Finish button to complete the mapping

Once connected, an open window should appear containing the files located within that mapped "space". At any time, until you reboot, you may return to this space by double-clicking the my computer icon where you will find an icon for this mapped drive.