{"id":1408,"date":"2005-08-29T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2005\/08\/mapping-network-drives\/"},"modified":"2005-08-29T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:58:00","slug":"mapping-network-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2005\/08\/mapping-network-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Network Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since getting new computers, or since some of the changes made on<br \/>\nButler&#8217;s computer networks, you may find yourself needing to create a<br \/>\nlink to a place on the network. For example, you may want to add a link<br \/>\nto BUFiles and the forms contained therein. Here&#8217;s how.<\/p>\n<p>Start My Computer or Windows Explorer. Click on <span>Tools &#8211; Map Network Drive<\/span>.<br \/>\nSet the Letter to whatever you want. Maybe F: for forms. Doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nmatter, as long as you can remember it. In the &#8220;Folder&#8221; textbox, type <span>\\\\bufiles\\general\\forms<\/span> if you want to create a link to the Forms folder. Or maybe <span>\\\\ben\\library<\/span><br \/>\nif you want to create a link to the Library folder. Make sure you leave<br \/>\nthe &#8220;Reconnect at logon&#8221; box checked, so it will be there next time you<br \/>\nwant it. Then just click Finish and you&#8217;re done!&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawgblog.myblogsite.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.approve.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>It should open up automatically, and then next time you go to My<br \/>\nComputer or Windows Explorer, you&#8217;ll see that letter there, all ready<br \/>\nto take you to your new shortcut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since getting new computers, or since some of the changes made on Butler&#8217;s computer networks, you may find yourself needing to create a link to a place on the network. For example, you may want to add a link to BUFiles and the forms contained therein. Here&#8217;s how. Start My Computer or Windows Explorer. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-technology-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}