Tech Tip of the Day: Chances are if you work at a decent sized company, and use a computer for a good portion of your day, you utilize a "mapped drive." This is a folder that has been shared from another computer/server/etc, and then mapped to a drive letter on your computer. This could be a "T Drive", "F Drive", "Z Drive", or just about any other lettered drive.
"I need an M drive" usually contains zero useful information for your IT professional.
The letter of the drive is arbitrary. Very rarely does an organization use only one specific drive letter for one specific share company wide. There are only 26 letters, some of which are unavailable because your computer has to have them for other local drives like your hard drive, optical drive, or thumb drive.
We can map any share out there to any letter available, but it will not necessarily be the share you really want. I just shared a folder on my computer with nothing but pictures of kitties in sweaters, I'll make that your M drive, you can thank me later for the hours of cuddly viewing.
The information we really need is the "UNC Path." This is the actual location of the share, and is what input into the drive mapping so that the letter knows what the location is. It looks like \\SomeServerName\SomeFolderName. If you look at someone else's mapped drive for what you need you can get that information for us. It will look like "SomeFolderName on SomeServerName."
If you can get that information ahead of time, it will save your IT guy and you a LOT of time running around, trying to find this information.
In the meantime, here's a kitty....
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