A network drive is a tool used to open access to its resources within local network. This element can be connected in several ways, differing in complexity and software tools involved in the procedure. You can find out more about them below.
Using network drives will significantly speed up work and navigation for users who often use the network.
If you have correctly completed all the above steps, then a separate disk should appear in the system, which can now be used as a network drive.
For normal operation of the network drive and access to it by other users, the computer where it is located must be turned on and connected to the local network.
Thus, using only 3 commands, you can create and correct network drives yourself if necessary.
After completing all the above procedures, you can configure the automatic launch of a network drive when you turn on the computer under the guidance Mac systems OS.
You can clearly see the instructions for connecting a network drive on Mac OS in the following video:
Connecting the Yandex.Disk storage can be implemented in a manner similar to setting up regular folders. To do this, launch the explorer, find the item "Computer" or "This computer" and select the item "Map network drive". After that, a window will open in which you will see the possible connection options:
It is important to note that establishing a connection to the cloud storage may require certain time so you'll have to be patient and wait.
Be sure to check the "Remember credentials" checkbox. Otherwise, you will have to re-enter them every time you start the system.
Be sure to remember that the password and login from the account in the DAV-pocket lab program itself must be different from your data specified in the Google Drive storage.
We figured out Yandex.Disk and Google Drive, but what if you work with Dropbox? Despite the popularity of this repository, there are no special bridge programs for it. What to do in this case? You can use a universal client called CarotDAV. It allows you to connect several network drives at once from various cloud storages. To do this, simply select the desired service and enter your login information:
The most common cause of such failures is an incorrect date and time. Incorrect data can cause conflicts in the network, which leads to such problems. To solve the problem, simply set the correct date and time.
If this does not help, you should contact a master who specializes in working with local networks. Independent attempts to correct the situation can lead to irreversible consequences - the loss of important data, failures in the network itself, etc.
Connecting a network drive is a fairly simple and safe procedure that almost every user can perform, but for this you need to follow a certain sequence of actions. Incorrect connection may lead to malfunctions, which must be remembered.
A network drive is a logical drive (folder) created for sharing files by PC users. The drive can be on a PC, a server, or network device data storage using the same local area network.
A network drive is often created by enterprises and educational institutions that store documents on servers, providing more space for storing and backing up files. However, with the growth of the amount of data, the disk becomes relevant in the home network.
To connect a network folder, you must transfer all PCs connected to it to a common workgroup.
Step 1. Press the key combination Win + R. Type in the menu sysdm.cpl and click OK.
Step 2 Click the Computer Name tab and click Change.
Step 3 Type name in "Member" working group» English letters. "Computer name" can be chosen any or left the same. Press OK.
Step 4 Restart your PC for the changes to take effect.
Step 5 to do Steps 1-4 on all computers in common network, specifying a single workgroup name for them.
Before making a connection, you must create a folder on the selected device located on the public network, naming it in English letters.
Step 1. Click on the created network folder, selecting "Properties".
Step 2 Click the "Sharing" tab and click "Sharing".
Step 3 Select "All" from the drop-down list and click "Add".
Step 5 Press "Finish".
The folder will be shared.
When connecting to a network, it is often necessary to disable the prompt for network credentials in Windows 7, 8, and 10 (on XP, this setting is not required). To disable the request, you need to change the settings for accessing the PC.
Step 1. Click on the network icon in notifications (bottom right of the screen) and select "Control Center ...".
Step 2 Click "Change Sharing...".
Step 3 Check in all profiles (opening the drop-down list) whether points are set for network discovery and sharing.
Step 4 Scroll the mouse wheel down the list of permissions, select "Disable password protection". Click Save Changes.
Reference! You may also need to disable and then re-enable Windows Firewall to connect to a network share.
Step 1. Open the Computer folder by double-clicking.
Step 2 Click "Tools" - "Map network drive" ( in Windows XP).
Click the "Connect ..." button at the top of the window ( in Windows 7).
Click the "Connect ..." button on the disk image on the ribbon interface ( in Windows 8 and 10).
Step 3 Select the letter of the folder and type the path consisting of two slashes " \\ ”, PC name followed by a slash “ \ ” and the name of the folder itself (with an underscore instead of a space, as shown in the “Example” in the screenshot).
Note! To connect, instead of the PC name, you can type it in, for example: \192.168.1.100folder_name.
Step 4 If the path to the folder is unknown, you can click "Browse ..." by opening the network tree with the mouse, clicking on the desired folder and clicking "OK". If you need a permanent connection to the folder, check the box "Restore connection ...".
If the connection requires different credentials, check the "Use different credentials" checkbox. The password and login will be requested after clicking "Done".
Press "Finish". The disk will be connected.
In a domain environment, you probably won't need to connect with other credentials, as the current domain login most likely already has access to the server.
For example, if there is file server NAS, and you need to mount its folder as a network folder, you may need to enter the credentials set on the NAS, since the credentials Windows data will not work.
Step 1. Press Win+R. Type cmd command and click OK.
When installed on a PC "", it organizes a folder on it for storing copies of files transferred to the server. This is rather inconvenient if the files being backed up are too large and take up a lot of space on the PC.
At the same time, Yandex.Disk supports WebDAV, allowing you to connect the service as a regular network folder without saving files to your PC.
Step 1. Select network drive mapping ( see above) and click on the link "Connecting to the site ...".
Step 3 Enter address: https://webdav.yandex.ru and click "Next".
Step 4 Select a name for the connection and click Next.
Step 5 Enter a username and password to connect to the service.
Important! The point indicated by the arrow in the photo must be marked only if one account is used for the service!
Step 6 Check the box "Open ...", click "Finish".
The Yandex.Disk folder will open.
A location will appear in the Computer folder that you can already use.
Yandex.Disk will be connected as network folder.
To connect a computer to a hotspot WiFi access you will need to purchase a Wi-Fi adapter, or connect an existing adapter to the network.
Step 1. For turning on Wi-Fi on the PC, click on the network in the notifications (bottom right) and select "Network Sharing Center ...".
Select "Network Control Center..."
Step 2 After turning on the adapter, click on the network and select "Connect" to the desired Wi-Fi network.
Step 3 Enter the access point password and click OK.
A wireless Wi-Fi connection will be established.
Windows 10 sometimes encounters a bug that leads to load hard drive by 100%. At the same time, the performance of the PC is reduced up to its complete “hanging”. If a computer running Windows 10 has become strongly "", you need to look at what is causing this situation.
Step 1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. The Task Manager will launch. Click on the "Processes" tab and see the status of the CPU, memory, disk and network.
If the drive is 90-100% loaded, you need to take action to reduce the load on it. Most often, high HDD load is associated with the system “looping” on file indexing, which is carried out to speed up access to them.
Step 2 Click on the magnifying glass icon next to the start button and type in cmd. Click on the "Command Prompt" utility found and select "Run as Administrator".
Step 3 Type the command in the window that appears: NET STOP "Windows Search" by pressing Enter.
Step 4 Run Step 1 this section and see if the load on the HDD has decreased. If the load has not decreased, disable the indexing service completely.
Step 5 Press Win + R, in the window that opens, type services.msc and press Enter.
Step 6 Click on Windows service Search by selecting "Properties".
Step 7 Click Stop, then select Disabled. Click "Apply" and "OK".
Step 8 Run Step 2 this sub-item and in the window that opens, type the following commands to disable the Windows Diagnostics service, pressing Enter after each command.
Step 9 Without closing the previous window, type the following command, which disables the SuperFetch service, which improves the launch of frequently used applications, by pressing Enter. In practice, the SuperFetch service is often the cause of high HDD load: net.exe stop superfetch
Step 10 Without closing the previous window, type the following command to disable the service automatic update Windows by pressing Enter: net stop wuauserv.
Also enter the following command by pressing Enter: sc config wuauserv start= disabled.
Step 11 Without closing the previous window, type a command that disables the paging file if the main disk in the system is solid state drive SSD by pressing Enter. paging file on SSD drive sometimes loads the HDD at 100%: wmic pagefileset where name="C:\pagefile.sys" delete(Where: name="C:\pagefile.sys"- file location)
Step 12 Without closing the previous window, type the following command to check and fix errors on the HDD by pressing Enter. To complete the HDD check, the computer will need to restart: chkdsk /F /R
Step 13 After restarting Windows, run Step 1 this section and see if the load on the hard disk has decreased.
Disabling these services in most cases allows you to get rid of the high HDD load.
So, how to map a network drive on Windows 10? We already know how to create, but it’s not very convenient to search the network environment for the desired shared folder, especially if there are a lot of computers. It's much easier to have it appear as a separate drive that appears alongside your "C" drive when the system boots.
To connect a network hard drive on Windows 10, the first step is to allow file and folder sharing on the computer. For this we click right click mouse on the start menu and go to "Network Connections"
Here in the left column click on "Change sharing settings"
This was the preparatory stage - now let's move on to the main question, how to map a Windows 10 network drive?
To do this, you need to open Explorer and in the left column, where the tree of drives and folders, find the link "My Computer" - right-click on it and select the item "Connect a network drive ...".
In the window that pops up after this, select the letter for our future network Windows disk, for example "X".
After selecting the folder, leave the "Restore at logon" checkbox so that after turning off the computer, you do not have to create it again every time. And click "OK".
Now, when you enter the explorer in the "Computer", among other system hard drives we will be able to see the "Z" drive in the "Network Location" section. you can get to it, provided that the computer on which this network drive-folder is located is turned on.
The technique for connecting a network drive on Windows XP is similar to that already described above. Therefore, we will describe here the connection method directly from the "Network Neighborhood" section.
We go to "Start> Network Places" and find the one we need shared folder on one of the computers on the local network. Right-click on it and select the "Map network drive" menu item. You can also simply select the “Service” item in the top menu and select the same section.
Now if you go to "My Computer", then hard drives will be displayed, as well as network folders connected as network drives, indicated by separate icons.
That's all. For those who still do not understand how, here is a video:
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Today, when the prices for computer equipment have become more or less acceptable, each member of the family can get their own computer. There is nothing to say about small and medium-sized enterprises, the use of several computers united in a single local network is a common thing in them. Naturally, in such conditions, users often have to exchange files in the process of work. Using removable portable drives for this is not very convenient, so developers operating systems was implemented such an opportunity as the creation of a network drive. In fact, this resource is a directory or a separately created logical partition, to which opens, i.e. hosts connected by a local network can connect. Very rarely, network drives on a home PC are created to be accessed from global network, for example, when a machine is used as a mini-server, shared folders on cloud services are mainly used to provide unified access to user files from the Internet.
Today we will learn how to create and add a network drive exactly on the local network. The main distributor is usually the administrator's computer, but it can also be any other PC on the network.
It all starts with creating an ordinary folder with unusual properties. Our example resource will be called WorkFolder. Create a folder with a suitable name in the location you need, open its properties, switch to the "Access" tab and click the "Advanced settings" button.
In the new dialog box, check the checkbox "Open sharing ...", set, if necessary, the number of users simultaneously accessing it, and then click "Permissions". By default, everyone has read-only permission, if you want other users to be able to edit files on the disk and write their data to it, change the permissions accordingly. Save the settings one by one.
At the last stage of saving in the properties window, you should see the message “There is a shared access” and the path itself, starting with two slashes.
Now, by clicking the share button, in the window that opens, add users who can access the shared folder on their PCs, otherwise they will receive a network error, the description of which is presented in the screenshot below.
At this stage, the basic configuration of the network drive is completed. The next step is to test network discovery. If your network is defined as a private network, discovery should be enabled by default, but if it is a public network, it will most likely need to be opened. Run the command in the Run window control /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter, and then click the "Change advanced sharing settings" link on the left.
Activate the "Turn on network discovery" radio button in the current profile and apply the changes. To be able to connect a network drive, the performed manipulations should be enough, if the latter then does not want to connect, try changing the network mode.
You can connect the newly created resource different ways, including through the familiar CMD console, but we will consider the simplest option. Right-click on the "This PC" shortcut (no matter where) and select "Map Network Drive" from the menu.
In the window of the wizard that has started, select a letter for the future resource, be sure to check the “Use other credentials” checkbox, otherwise other users will not even be able to see it on their computers.
Through the browse button, select the folder for which you set up sharing.
After clicking the "Finish" button, Windows will ask for the current username and password.
The corresponding section should also become visible in the main workspace of this computer.
To disable network resource right-click on it and select "Disable" from the menu. You can also select it with the mouse and select "Disconnect Network Drive" from the Network ribbon menu.
There are also other ways to connect the created and configured shared resource, but they are less convenient. For example, instead of searching for it through browsing, you can specify its symbolic or IP address in the field of the connection window. The symbolic address is specified in the properties of the folder, IP in the properties of the adapter "Local Area Connection" (parameter IPv4 address).
The same address can be obtained from the command line by executing the command ipconfig /all(the data will be in the section of the same name).
And finally, let's see how to map a network drive in Windows 7/10 using the CMD command line or the PowerShell console, perhaps this method will seem even faster to someone. The general command syntax looks like
net use \\ComputerName\ShareName[\volume]
username]
Here drive is a free drive letter, and \ComputerName\ShareName– path to the shared folder. Let's connect our WorkFolder folder from the desktop as a network drive, for which we execute the following command in the line running with administrator rights:
net use Z: //DESKTOP-8CS7OLG/WorkFolder /user:comp 11111
Parameter /user is required so that the system does not request authorization. The string element "comp" in this example is the computer's administrator name, and "11111" is his current password. To make a network drive connected permanently, and not just during an open session, you can add the switch to the end of the command /persistent:yes.
To disable the disk, run the command net use z: /delete, where z is the drive letter.
Unfortunately, in the Windows 10 we tested, when connected with the net use command, the corresponding volume was not displayed in the “This PC” section, remaining still accessible from the Explorer navigation bar.
So, now you know how to set up a network drive, but these are, of course, only general recommendations. Practice shows that in the process of connecting such resources, one often encounters various errors, of which the most common is “The network path was not found”. Causes of failures may be problems with the settings network adapters, with drivers, parameters network security and so on. In such cases, problems are usually resolved privately based on the identified cause.
Press " Service"- "map network drive"
ReviewOK".
You can change the drive letter if it is already taken by clicking Disk and select a letter. When finished, click " Ready".
As a result, you will see a mapped network drive.
Before you map a network drive on Windows7, you need to check network settings, for this go to " Start" - "Control Panel" -"or click on the button network connection on the taskbar and select "Network Control Center and public access ".
In the opened window Network and Sharing Center look at which network is used (in this example - Working) click on "".
In the profile you're using (home, work, or shared), check to see if Network discovery if disabled, enable. Save your changes.
Now you can proceed directly to connecting a network drive, for this go to Computer, press " map network drive".
The Network Drive Mappings window opens. Press " Review", select the computer on which the network folder is located, click on it and select required folder, press " OK". You can change the drive letter, to do this, click on the highlighted field yellow and choose another letter. At the end press " Ready".
In addition to this method, to map a network drive, you can
Before connecting a network drive on Windows8, you need to check the network settings, for this go to "Control Panel" - "Network and Sharing Center" or click on the Network Connection button on the Taskbar and select "Network and Sharing Center".
In the window that opens, look at which network is used (in this example, Public), click on " Change advanced sharing options".
In the profile you are using (private, guest, or public), make the necessary changes, namely:
Turn on network discovery; 
Save your changes.
Now you can connect a network drive, for this click on the shortcut Computer select tab "Computer"-"map network drive".
The Network Drive Mappings window opens. Press " Review", select the computer on which the network folder is located, click on it and select the desired folder, click " OK". You can change the drive letter, to do this, click on the field highlighted in yellow and select a letter. At the end, click " Ready".
As a result, a network drive will appear.
To connect/disconnect a network drive and network printer command is used net use, here is the syntax of this command:
NET USE
[device_name | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
Username]
Username]
[ | ]
NET USE (devicename | *) [password | *] /HOME
NET USE
The NET USE command connects a computer to a share or disconnects a computer from a share. When the command is used without parameters, a list of connections for this computer is displayed.
device_name Assigns a name to connect to a resource or specifies a device to disconnect from. Two types of device names are used: disk devices (letters D: to Z:) and printers (letters LPT1: to LPT3:). If you enter an asterisk (*) instead of a device name, the next unoccupied name is assigned.
\\computername Specifies the name of the computer that controls the share. If spaces are used in the computer name, you must enclose this entire parameter in quotation marks, along with two backslashes (\\). The computer name can be 1 to 15 characters long.
\resource_name Specifies the network name of the share.
\volume Specifies the NetWare volume on the server. To access NetWare servers, NetWare Client Services (Windows Workstations) or NetWare Gateway Service (Windows Server) must be installed and running.
password Specifies the password required to access the share.
*
Specifies a password prompt. When entering into command line the password is not displayed.
/USER Specifies a different username with which to establish the connection.
domain name Specifies a different domain. If the domain is not specified, then the current domain used when logging on to the network is assumed.
Username Specifies the username for logging on to the network.
/SMARTCARD Specifies that this connection uses smart card credentials.
/SAVECRED Specifies that the username and password should be saved. This parameter is ignored if the command does not prompt for a username and password.
/HOME Connects the user to the home directory.
/DELETE Cancels a network connection and removes it from the list permanent connections.
/PERSISTENT Controls the use of constants network connections. The default is the last parameter used.
YES Saves established connections and restores them the next time you log on to the network.
NO Does not save established connections or subsequent connections, as a result, they will not be restored at the next login. Use the /DELETE option to remove persistent connections.
An example of using the net use command:
net use z: /delete
net use z:\\computer1\Shared Folder
net use /Persistent:Yes
net use z: /delete - command to unmount network drive Z.
computer1\Shared Folder - path to the shared folder (network folder)
net use /Persistent:Yes- on reboot, restore mounted disks (if you specify NO, reset the settings).
To create a script, create text file, write the necessary commands, save. Change file extension
from TXT to BAT. Now you can simply double-click to launch BAT file and all prescribed commands will be executed.
