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Create share name based on volume label?

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by wysocki 1 view

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I have a file server that has several removable drives in it. At any given time, this causes installed drives to have different drive letters assigned to them. I want to share all these drives over the network and the problem is that share names don't stay with the drive when it's moved to a different letter.

Is there any way that I can create a share name based upon the volume label? That is, on a disk with a volume label of "backup" I'd like it to be known as \\server\backup or if a disk's label was "videos" it'd be shared as \\server\videos no matter what local drive letter it happened to be at on the server.

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by steffen.hornung

Hi,

first answer - NO. Not automatically.
Second answer - YES. But only manually. And ONLY based on the drive letter it gets.
If a connected drive gets another letter then previous assigned, Windows wont share the drive.
Because Windows saves the share names according to F:\sharedata.
So if the drive gets G Letter, Windows still searches under F:\sharedata

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