Naming network Drives

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:11:58 -0500, B00ze wrote:

On 2018-02-11 13:34, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:19:46 -0500, wrote:

I have created a BAT file to (re)connect my mapped network shares onto
my Win 10 device but I would like to know if there is a way to give
them "common" names

I can Rename a drive by right clicking on a mapped share [eg
\\192.168.0.45\thisdrive (G to rename it "Important Stuff" so that
it shows up as Important Stuff (G ]
I'd like to be able to do this within my BAT file rather than to
constantly rename my Mapped drives

Thoughts?

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For those of you still following along.. I think I have found the way
to achieve my goal
I simply created a ".reg" file that includes everything I needed to
know. I scavenged the correct syntax from looking into the registry to
see how it was done, exported that information and appended it to
include all the drives and locations I wished to use.
I have applied it to my Win 7 and Win 10 machines and it seems to be
the perfect answer. I will next create a version that undoes these
changes and thus making sure that new changes will take properly

Thanks to all who answered my query

Yeah, the Visual Basic only ends-up modifying the registry anyway :-)
Glad you got it working!

What tipped it was that if I did a few by hand, and later used the
Mapping batch, I noticed that the names stayed.. Even after a Net Use
wipe.. so I hunted for the place in the reg and exported and modified
to create a .reg file that I could call from an other batch.. Still
working on an undo version.. but I need to use an other computer so I
don't inadvertently trash the good ones

Happy trails My Friend