How do I find where a network drive is mapped to in Windows 7?

How do I find out where a network drive on my work machine is mapped to?

One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other three don't.

edwardmlyte

Posted 2012-02-01T11:02:48.910

Reputation: 579

Better answer at https://superuser.com/q/465038/2366.

– Mark Ransom – 2018-10-19T15:05:09.937

"One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other 3 don't." -- It looks weird. Can you upload an image illustrating this situation? – Jimm Chen – 2012-02-01T12:13:47.980

Answers

Go to Start » Run, type in cmd and press OK.

In the cmd box, paste the following, then press Enter to run it.

wmic path Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType="4" get DeviceID, ProviderName

Doing the above but typing in NET USE instead of copying the above also yields the same result.

Iain Simpson

Posted 2012-02-01T11:02:48.910

Reputation: 1 302

In Windows Explorer, you can also switch the view to "Details" and right-click the header to add a column named "Network location":

Windows Explorer Network Location

Helps if the admin has disabled CMD for you (!)

PaloDravecky

Posted 2012-02-01T11:02:48.910

Reputation: 721

I couldn't find "Network Location" on the list on Win 7 Pro. – pghcpa – 2015-09-24T22:54:44.500

@pghcpa I see the option only in the root of "My Computer", not inside any of the network drives. Are you looking there? – PaloDravecky – 2015-09-25T08:13:41.563

note* This gives the share path, but not the disk path. – Ben Plont – 2018-01-23T18:37:36.297

if your drive is at location '\name\Data1' you can retrieve the IP by: 'ping name' – FrankyHollywood – 2018-05-18T13:26:11.590

Also works on Win8.1 Enterprise. Thanks! – cxw – 2019-01-25T14:59:03.007

Sometimes the net use or the Win32_LogicalDisk will not show some of the mapped drives, powershell cmd:

gwmi win32_mappedlogicaldisk | select name, providername

will work then. The corresponding windows cmd is the following:

wmic path win32_mappedlogicaldisk get DeviceID, ProviderName

Frank

Posted 2012-02-01T11:02:48.910

Reputation: 141