mapped drive has an error message.

the workstations involved are only 7.

but the thing is i enable guest account.but there is this pop up that kept calling me to sign in with a username and password.

do you have any steps to guide me?

does it got to do with mmc(microsoft management console)group policy snap-in?

thanks for the help anyway.

give guest account access to the files?

if you don't know how to do that or add an account you probably need to pick up a basic book before coming for help.

hi jacky,

so creating restricted users will be on the workstation that has the shared hard disk right?

thank you so much!

Map a Network Drive in Windows XP

Right click on the start button and select Explore, then up at the top, you should see the menu bar. From this menu bar, select Tools, you can then click on the option to Map Network Drive and a new window will popup.

Once a new Map Network Drive window pops up, it will ask you to choose a drive letter. There will be a drop down list that will show you which drives are available. You might notice that if you already have mapped drives, they will be indicated by a shared folder name that is seen inside the dropdown list corresponding to the drive letter.

Once you selected the folder to map from the drop down list, you must name it. It is important to note that you must name this file following the UNC (Universal Naming Convention). This naming convention is used to identify resources on a network. Usually the UNC has three parts; the first part is the server name, the second part is the share name. The third part is optional, but used often, it is the file path. You can combine all three of these parts with backslashes. For instance: \\server\share\file_path

Besides typing in the UNC by hand, you can also just click the Browse button, using this button; you can search and choose the correct folder.

Once you have selected your drive letter and selected the folder to map out, you can now click the "Reconnect at Login" check box. This checkbox should only be checked if you would like to make this network drive permanent. In other case, after you log out of the computer it will un-map the drive. Another option is if your remote computer needs to have a different username and password in order to log in. You can easily input this info by clicking on the hyperlink and entering the information.

Now, all you need to do is click Finish. If there are any problems mapping the network drive, an error message will popup, the error message might say that the computer was unable to map your drive, at this point, you should check to make sure you named the folder properly. Another possible message you may receive is if the drive was previously mapped to a different location. Usually the computer will ask you to replace the existing connection with then new one that you specified. You can easily click yes and the computer will disconnect and un-map and older connections.

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to give individual logons you will have to create a user account for each user that will access the drive on that PC and let the users know their username and password.
Remember that they are logging on to that PC to be able to access the drive. That way they will all have seperate passwords (their own).

The other way to do it is to create one user account and let everyone have the password so that they can use that account to access the shared drive. It will lower your security and doing it the other way you can block users access if you need to.

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