I don't know if this tip's been
mentioned before, but it's so useful I thought it should be mentioned
again.
By using Microsoft Word's built in (and default) ability
to recognize html addresses and UNC's, there's a way to make accessing
network shares much easier than hunting through network neighborhood or
even through pre-mapped drives from your login script.
I created a
document called Connections.doc and in it, I typed out the fully qualified
domain name of many of the shares I use on a daily basis.
For
example, I have a large hard drive on my computer that stores the
installation files for all of the programs we have (Office, Photoshop, NT's
I386 directory, etc.) Instead of mapping a drive to that location on
every computer I go to, I simply type this in my
Connections.doc
\\mark_s_hart\install\
I've done that for many
of the shares in other domains as well, and it works great! - much faster
than hunting for the share and much easier as well.
This also works
very well for executables like a service pack
update
This
works really well for someone with a roaming profile. Keep this
Connections.doc in your home directory and have a shortcut on your roaming
desktop. That way it'll always be there when you need it, but your
profile will have only one icon that it needs for all your network
shares which keeps the profile size to a minimum.
When I had these
mappings in my login script, it really slowed login time to a crawl because
it had to connect to each share, and then move on to the next. But, by
putting them in a connections.doc and accessing that file once you're
connected to the network, the link to that install folder opens up VERY
quickly! - you're already authenticated to the network, so it just goes
about its business.
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