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I have a PC here that needs to connect to a network drive to receive data. Multiple users will log in with their own accounts to do research with the data from that same network drive. I want to know if there is a way that i could map the network drive one time so that everybody who logs in will see the drive and won't have to map it themselves. The PC is Windows 7 pro. thank you
Beatle
Posted 2014-11-18T22:05:10.797
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You mentioned that the accounts are on the domain, and you are the domain admin, and so this article goes over what you're asking. It shows you multiple ways of determining which users should have access to the network drive, if you don't want to map it for all your users.
Basically you have to setup a security group in AD with the users for which you want to map the network drive. There are other ways to map network drives, such as running a script on startup, if you need more complex logic, but typically doing it by security group is the easiest way to do it.
Adam
Posted 2014-11-18T22:05:10.797
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thanks a lot. I will look at that article. My main goal is to make it so that every user that logs into that specific computer ( which is a virtual machine) has the mapped drives already to go for them. Since it will be something that a lot of the scientists here will need access to. Yeah, someone else mentioned the script method as well. I will look into both. – Beatle – 2014-11-18T23:16:44.130
1Are you on a domain that's under your control? You could use group policy to do what you're talking about. If not, why not just log into each account and map the drive? – Adam – 2014-11-18T22:17:57.227
Yes it is under a domain. I am the domain admin. I will look into that. I don't want to log into each account because I am too lazy. i don't like to work hard. – Beatle – 2014-11-18T22:22:57.660
Using Group Policy Preferences to Map Drives Based on Group Membership – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-11-18T22:29:49.460