Network drive mapping and its display in explorer

[emaybee]

Is there a way to alter the display of a network drive in windows explorer so that it does not display the actual network path?

 

[erikhertzel]

emaybee,

Open Windows Explorer, right click on the shared drive and select Rename.
Change the name to 'Disk.' for example...

Hope this helps,

Erik

 

[rvnguy]

emaybee,

If you initiate a share of say a directory on the server,

this is what you should see in explorer:

\\server??\DirName

Are you wanting to eliminate the reference to \\server??

or are you/is your path more complete?

What specifically are you attempting to mask?


rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[emaybee]

rvnguy,


I just want to hide the UNC path.


erikhertzel,

Sounds simple enough but I'd rather not have to touch a couple of hundred computers to do that.

Thanks in advance.

 

[erikhertzel]

emaybee

yeah, I know, I hear you...I really dug into this one and that's all I could muster up. Sorry I couldn't help more, but that's the only thing I could come up with...

Erik

 

[rvnguy]

emaybee,

Looking into this I am a bit confused:

If there is a drive mapping to a shared location( in this example the "DepartmentDir") it should appear something like:

"H:\DepartmentDir\" while the actual UNC is something like:

"\\ServerName\CompanyDir\DepartmentDir\"

Is this not what you are seeing?


rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[emaybee]

Sorry rvnguy. This is the deal....

There is a drive mapping(Z and in explorer it displays as

Sharename on 'server\netlogon\foldername\subfoldername'(Z


I would like to simply display Sharename (Z

No extra path information

 

[linney]

Possibly this might work?

Hide UNC path to mapped drives...?

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...emove+OR+hide+OR+mask&rnum=2#ac89666c0b2d9bac