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Mapped vs. shared drives
Name: Ted Date: June 12, 2004 at 09:37:38 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 256 MB
Comment:
What is the difference between a mapped drive and a shared drive?
Name: wanderer Date: June 12, 2004 at 11:40:50 Pacific
Reply:
a shared drive is a drive or folder that is being advertized on the network as available to be utilized.
a mapped drive, more specificly known as a mapped drive letter, is a remote stations assignment of a drive letter to the advertized share.
So on the shared drive you might have MY Share. On the remote wkst in My Computer there would be a drive letter like F: that is associated with the share My Share. By clicking on F: you get to the contents of My Share.
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