Renaming mapped drives

#1 durex

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Posted 27 November 2004 - 02:27 PM

Im using a vbscript (WShNetwork.MapNetworkDrive) to map several drives... anyone know how I can set a specific name for each of them? Whether its adding another parameter to my vbscript or an additional batch Ill need to create, or even a reg setting...

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Posted 27 November 2004 - 04:22 PM

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Posted 27 November 2004 - 08:58 PM

Well, thats fine.. but what would the additional parameter be that would allow me to name it?

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#5 durex

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Posted 28 November 2004 - 01:36 PM

Thats what Im using but when I do that I end up with

<Foldername> on '<Servername>' (<MapDriveLetter>)

From there I can rename the drive to whatever I want ie: "Pics (Y:)". Just wondering what needs to be done to have this done automatically...

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Posted 15 December 2004 - 11:22 AM

durex,

can't find the description either, not in WMI win32_mappeddrive also

but I'v found it in the registry, you can change it there after making the mapped drive.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\##[server]#[share]

add REG_SZ _LabelFromReg there and add your description as value

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