Mapping a network drive — also known as “mounting” a drive — allows you to create an easy access point to specific data on a network server using your own computer. If you frequently need to consult ...

You could back up your data on an external hard drive, but what if you need to access important files or information that’s located on a computer other than your own? Mapping networked drives grants ...

Not being able to access your mapped drives on a Windows computer is a serious issue. It prevents you from accessing files stored across computers or enjoying easy file-sharing over the network. In ...

Many Linksys wireless router models come with at least one USB port you can use for attaching a USB drive, which you can then use as a media server for networked media devices, an FTP server or even a ...

I'll preface this with saying I don't know anything about scripting. Or at least very little. I can generally figure out what is going on by reading a script, but I can't write them at all, and fixing ...

A Friday tip via @scottisafool, a good friend of mine who knows Live Writer like the back of his hand. You can now use Windows Live SkyDrive as a network location which sits as a drive in your ...

Using windows XP, I know how to map a network drive over normal ftp, but the obvious way of trying to do this with secure ftp doesnt work (by simply replacing the ftp with sftp when determining the ...

These instructions describe how to access a College of Science network drive from a Windows or MAC computer. (You need to either be on a campus network or connected via VPN to access network shares.) ...

I will never fault someone for asking a tech question that feels “basic,” because we all had to get our start somewhere. Few of us popped out of the womb knowing how to access a network share in ...

Windows allows you to map network drives to your computer so that you can access them through File Explorer without always having to search for them or use the address bar to find them. While network ...

Have you ever wanted to create a drive letter mapping within your local system under Windows? Usually the mappings are reserved for network paths, but it can be useful for development (or even just as ...