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How to Map a Network Drive

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Procedures for mapping a network drive. These procedures will instruct you on how to map a network drive to your workstation computer. If you have any difficulty with these instructions, please notify someone in the IS -Department so that we can help you.

To check what network drives you have mapped:

  1. Open an Explorer window (right click on the Start button in the bottom left, then left click on Explore).
  2. In the left window, scroll down until you see drives after D:
    Network drives have the network symbol on the left, and will say " on 'ktcweb1'".
To map a network drive:
  1. right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop (or in the explorer window, choose the Tools pull down menu),
  2. then click on "Map Network Drive", this will open a window with two (2) pull down menu fields, and a checkbox field.
  3. the first pull down menu field identifies what drive letter you will map to, you can change it to any letter that is available, or just choose the next available.
  4. the second pull down menu field identifies what you map to on the server. If you previously mapped to drives you are no longer mapped to, you can select them in the pull down menu. You can also type in the drive you want to map to, useing the following format:
    \\ktcweb1\drivename
    where drivename is the drive you want to map to (home is your home directory, based on what user name you login to the initial windows login on your PC).
  5. The checkbox field identifies if the network drive should be mapped again when you restart your computer, if you check the box, it will map again when you restart.
To disconnect a network drive:
  1. right click on the drive letter in explorer and choose disconnect
    or
    left click on My computer (or the Tools pull down menu in explorer), then "Disconnect Network Drive"
  2. then choose which drive you would like to disconnect.