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Is it wise having multiple mapped drives

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by orosas

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I need to know if it's practical to have multiple mapped drives on the user's computer? Does it created any overhead on the users computer or on the server? Is less mapped drives better?

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by oz_media

I run Netware servers at a couple of different companies. There are MANY mapped drives depending on the user, and the rights needed and allocated to the user. I've never seen any degredation of performance or been called with such problems or concerns.

My self, I have 6 drives mapped for one location and 8 for the second. I use my laptop to remote network both offices from home and it is smooth as silk.

by joncr

The server performance is completely determined by file access when it comes to number of shares. If 100Mb of files are being written it makes no difference to performance if they are written through 1 share or 100.

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