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accessing Network shares w/o mapping to driveletter?

Posted: 10.09.2014, 22:35
by coyote
Is "the" only way to access my shared folders on other networked computers, to map drive letters to each folder using Tools menu|"Connect to network drive..." ?

Given that there are 'only' 26 letters in the alphabet, I was hoping for something more like in WindowsExplorer where (now in WinXP Pro sp3) I find all the folders in

My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows Network/<LAN name>/<computername>/

without expending limited drive letters.

I love FC, even though (in case this matters) I'm using it in a view (IIRC a 1-pane view) that looks like WinExplorer does:
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Re: accessing Network shares w/o mapping to driveletter?

Posted: 11.09.2014, 01:32
by joby_toss
Use "desktop" as base folder for the tree and you can access "Network" from FC.

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Re: accessing Network shares w/o mapping to driveletter?

Posted: 11.09.2014, 02:29
by coyote
joby_toss wrote:Use "desktop" as base folder for the tree and you can access "Network" from FC.
Sweet, this is perfect for me in every way (given my apparent wish for a WinExplorer-type look/feel), thank you very much for a better solution/reply than I could have hoped for, joby_toss!