User Guide

ERD Commander 2002
Winternals Software LP Page 22
12 Mapping Network Drives
ERD Commander 2002 Explorer provides a Network Neighborhood folder for
you to navigate to file shares. However, because only NetBIOS browsing is
supported, in some cases it may be more convenient to access a file share
through a mapped drive letter. To map file shares to a drive letter, use the
Map Network Drive menu item in the Tools menu or the Map Network Drive
button on a file share’s properties dialog. This method allows mapping of
shares even on networks without NetBIOS, where shares are not visible in
Network Neighborhood.
The Map Network Drives dialog (Figure 12-1) requires that you specify a free
local drive letter, the path to the network file share that you want to map, and,
optionally, username and password information that Explorer should use to
connect to the share. The network share path can consist of DNS (e.g.
\\system.mydomain.com), NetBIOS (\\System) or TCP/IP (\\192.168.3.101)
computer addresses.
Disconnect a mapped drive either by selecting the drive you wish to
disconnect and selecting Disconnect from its context menu, or by selecting
the drive in the Disconnect Network Drive dialog, accessed from the Tools
menu.