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What to do when company runs out of mapped drive letters
Posted on 2013-01-04
We have a Windows Server 2008 domain environment. We have assigned all drive letters to mapped network drives, and we need to map some more network drives.
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you should consider Windows distributed file system.
this way, you can share different volumes/folders from different machines in a transparent way .
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb524800%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
this way, you can share different volumes/folders from different machines in a transparent way .
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb524800%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
You can use the mount-points when run out of mapped drive letter.
For mount point more info refer below link :
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/use-mount-points-if-you-run-out-of-windows-drive-letters/383
http://superuser.com/questions/383012/how-to-increase-mapped-drive-letters-from-windows-defaults
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx
For mount point more info refer below link :
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/use-mount-points-if-you-run-out-of-windows-drive-letters/383
http://superuser.com/questions/383012/how-to-increase-mapped-drive-letters-from-windows-defaults
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx
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