How to Set Up a Network Drive on Windows

http://gotomanage.com - Setting up a network drive on either Windows or OS X can be a confusing process. Either it works right away, or you can find yourself troubleshooting various connectivity issues that keep you from being able to see shared folders and drives on other computers on your network.

Using GoToManage from Citrix, LockerGnome's Chris Pirillo and Jake Ludington were able to set up Hector's network drive from an iPad.

http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2011/10/27/how-to-map-a-network-drive-in-w...

Mapping a network drive can be done fairly easily. Once your network drive is set up for network sharing, you can go to your client system and map the network drive so it's as readily available as a local drive. This allows you to avoid having to find the drive or folder on the network each time you start your machine.

First, you'll need to open Windows Explorer by selecting Computer in your Start menu.

Next, select Map Network Drive under the Tools menu located a the top of the window.

At this point, you'll be able to select a drive letter to assign the network drive and navigate to the network drive (or folder) using the Browse button.

Once you've selected the network resource and drive letter you'd like to assign the remote drive, simply click OK and it should appear alongside any other local drive in the main Windows Explorer screen.

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• How-to
• Microsoft Windows
• network
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• shared
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[minevilleofficial]

how do you do this on a mac?:/

[lockergnome]

@minevilleofficial - We'll cover this in a future video. Thanks for the suggestion!

[lockergnome]

Do you use shared drives on your network? How many are you connecting to right now?

[talldude123]

@lockergnome Two. 

[lockergnome]

@talldude123 - Do your network drives have funny names?

[alienthurandthur]

What ever happened to Brandon?

[iMeerkatCS]

Wonder why all the dislikes? Gotomanage is a great product from Cisco. Chris and Jake did a great job introducing the product. I will consider this for my in home IT solutions. I personally use Team Viewer with the more "needy" clients. I'll have to give this a go.

[farter1255]

I did this in linux by right clicking, and checking the "Share On Network" checkbox. After that i was asked to give it a name on the network. And DONE

[UbuntuGenious]

@1993gandy Right.... ok then lol

[LOTRzagorath]

@Gr33nMamba Thing is, GoToManage, GoToAssist, GoToExpress are all Citrix products. I was just wondering why it's this one specifically that's sponsoring him.

Personally, I use Team Viewer. I don't do this for profit or anything, just to help out friends, so it's a good solution for me. I was just asking out of curiosity.

[KelanDWood]

You should do a replacing your mac harddrive video. You said you wanted to do it.

[scottuss2314]

There's hardly any difference between using an app like this on an iPad and an Android tablet....

[scottuss2314]

Confused

[Gr33nMamba]

@LOTRzagorath the difference is he gets commission for pimping their product.

Serious answer, they are very similar with slight advantages in pricing and functionality, sign up for trials and decide your self what is right for you. There is a lot of competition, team viewer, NTRSupport, Citrix, GoToExpress, PCAnyware, Intel VManage, etc etc.

[LOTRzagorath]

Can you please explain the difference between GoToManage and other Citrix products like GoToAssist?