Mapping A Drive Letter
Normally the drive letters on your PC are predefined to specific components on your local PC. The floppy drive will be letters A: and/or B:. The hard disk drive(s) will be letter(s) C:, D:, E:, etc... and the CD-ROM will be another letter. Other drive letters are available to be assigned to other devices. These devices do not need to be local to the computer but can be services that are connected through an attached network.
When your data or resources are not available on your local computer but are available on a remote system it is convenient to define and connect to the remote system with the use of a PC drive letter. These drive letter definitions make the services easier to access and use. They are very simple to create and only need to be defined once for any drive letter to be used.
A drive letter can be mapped as follows:
- Open My Computer
- Select the TOOL bar menu option
- Select "Map Network Drive"
- Select a vacant drive letter to use
- Enter the path to the remote service (usually a UNC path like \\IF-SRV-MYServer\mydirectory)
- Check the "Reconnect at Logon" box
- Left click on the "OK" button
