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Figure 6-17
Browsing the network
Activity 6-16: Mapping a Drive
Time Required:
15 minutes
Objective:
Map a drive letter to a shared folder.
Description:
A user in the Sales Department accesses the Marketing share frequently but forgets how
to use the UNC path. You decide to show this user several ways to map a drive letter to the share.
1. Log on to the domain from your Vista computer as
salesperson1
with
Password02
.
2. Click
Start
, type
\\serverXX
in the Start Search text box, and press
Enter
.
3. Right-click the
Marketing
share and click
Map Network Drive
to open the Map Network
Drive dialog box.
4. Click the
Drive
list arrow, and click
M:
. By default, the Reconnect at logon box check box
is selected, which is what you usually want in this situation. This option means that the M
drive always connects to this share when the user logs on. For this activity, click to clear
Reconnect at logon
, as shown in Figure 6-18. You can also use a different username to access
this share, if necessary.
Figure 6-18
The Map Network Drive dialog box
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