Patrick Montgomery
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Is there a way to assign different mapped drives to the same drive letter?
I'm sure this probably isn't possibly, but is there a way to map 2 different network drives to the same drive letter?
The only way I can see doing it is to change the drive letter for one of network drives. Suggestions?
The only way I can see doing it is to change the drive letter for one of network drives. Suggestions?
No... One mapping at a time... How would the system know you wanted X: mapped to \\server1\share or X: mapped to \\server2\share?
The second mapping disconnects the first, or you get an error..
The second mapping disconnects the first, or you get an error..
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I don't know if it makes a difference but I'm pushing these out via GPO. I was wondering if naming them differently would work, but they would just have two H: drives going to different locations? I can't remember ever seeing this though.
Again... No... One instance of each drive letter is allowed... Just one.... Only one... Per PC....
Now PC1 can have H: pointing in a completely different place than PC2, But each computer only gets one mapping to each UNUSED letter... If the letter is already grabbed by system hardware like a DVD drive or such, it will not map reliably...
Now PC1 can have H: pointing in a completely different place than PC2, But each computer only gets one mapping to each UNUSED letter... If the letter is already grabbed by system hardware like a DVD drive or such, it will not map reliably...
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Yes that is true, I had forgot about that. Consider this case closed.
Seems to me you are saying you want F: mapped to FolderA and FolderB at the same time. Well, you can't do exactly that but, you could create a FolderC, map F: to folderC, then move FolderA and FolderB to Folder C so that both would be available under F:
You should be able to do this without actually copying/moving the folders to FolderC... use symbolic links.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
You should be able to do this without actually copying/moving the folders to FolderC... use symbolic links.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
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You can play around with junctions. Perhaps one "master drive" with network junction folders?
mklink /D S:\MapDrive1\\someserver\someshare1\foldername1
mklink /D S:\MapDrive2 \\someserver\someshare2\foldername2
i still wonder WHY you would like to do that?
Patrick, come back and tell us; you can also close this Q then
Patrick, come back and tell us; you can also close this Q then
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This can be closed. It was decided not to pursue this.
You can close by choosing the best answer(s).
Patrick - why don't you answer my questio " i still wonder WHY you would like to do that?"
I should have objected to this one... I gave pretty much the same answer first...
Me, too... not the first answer, but the first answer as to how he could get both folders associated with a mapped folder by using links.
In essence two mapped resources to the same drive letter is chaos and cannot be represented on a user PC.