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pcourtney1
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Oct 18, 2013

Need some advice re Shares and Drive Mapping

we have a ReadyNAS Duo working perfectly for many years, we probably use it very differently to most people, in that anyone at the office (who is on the LAN), can map a network drive to the NAS (all our work laptops are Windows OS) , when they arrive at the office they backup their docs to the NAS, they do this by simply dragging a folder on the laptop to the Z drive on the NAS (they create a directory on the laptop which is named after the person eg johnsmiith, so we all know whose files are whose) - everyone very happy including me ( the office admin guy )

up to this time there has only been one share on the NAS called "backup"

now I want to provide 1 person with his own personal share that is password protected (nobody else can access these files) and map it say to the Y drive on their laptop, so I created a new share called "bobsbackup" , \\readynas\bobsbackup but for whatever reason windows does not allow me to map this to the next current drive letter available Y on hos Windows XP laptop

he can see the Z drive fine, and drag docs to it

but adding another share mapped to Y seems to be beyond me, can I ask for help in how to achieve this in a step by step process please, the manual for the Duo is not helping me one dot.

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  • what do others do in my situation, I hope I am not asking for something that is too difficult to do on the ReadyNAS
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    The procedure for mapping a second network drive is the same as the first. It's a microsoft thing, which is why the manual is of limited value.

    For Win7, the mapping procedure itself is done from windows explorer (tools, then "map network drives") Are you seeing any drive letters show up in the pulldown there?
  • thanks Stephen

    all sorted now I am glad to say, I re-read the manual a few more times as well :-)

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