Map network drive tip
If you have a small Lan like I do, then you probably have the mapped networked drives you use all the time set to automatically reconnect at logon. But on the first machine to boot(if you shut them off at night) there's no network running, so you probably wait for the other machine(s) to come up, then map the network drive manually in Explorer.
For some things the command line is actually easier, esp. if you use a .cmd file. In my case, every day I've been clicking on Map Network Drive in Explorer, then clicking on the workgroup, machine, shared folder etc..
and then I figured I must be brain dead because a simple net use command would eliminate all that clicking.
On my setup the "other" machine is Windows 7. The shared folder I map to drive T: every day is \\NAME\Users\Public where \\NAME is the machine name on the network. A one liner .cmd file is all it takes... MapT.cmd
net use T: \\NAME\Users\Public
Now instead of doing all that clicking, once I see the network is up and ready I just open a command prompt and enter MapT
way easier.
If you have a small Lan like I do, then you probably have the mapped networked drives you use all the time set to automatically reconnect at logon. But on the first machine to boot(if you shut them off at night) there's no network running, so you probably wait for the other machine(s) to come up, then map the network drive manually in Explorer.
For some things the command line is actually easier, esp. if you use a .cmd file. In my case, every day I've been clicking on Map Network Drive in Explorer, then clicking on the workgroup, machine, shared folder etc..
and then I figured I must be brain dead because a simple net use command would eliminate all that clicking.
On my setup the "other" machine is Windows 7. The shared folder I map to drive T: every day is \\NAME\Users\Public where \\NAME is the machine name on the network. A one liner .cmd file is all it takes... MapT.cmd
net use T: \\NAME\Users\Public
Now instead of doing all that clicking, once I see the network is up and ready I just open a command prompt and enter MapT
way easier.
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