Map a drive to root of a server (\\sever) in Vista

Posted by Andy T on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Andy T
Published on 2010-07-28T21:34:55Z Indexed on 2011/01/16 11:55 UTC
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Hi,

In Win XP, I can very easily map a network drive to the root of my NAS server. I browse to it in Explorer (\192.168.1.70), choose "Map Network Drive", choose the drive letter, done.

In Vista, this does not seem possible. I have to go "Map Network Drive" from 'Computer', then enter the address, but it will only let me map to specific shares (sub-folders off of the server root) and NOT to the server root share.

Since my NAS has built-in shares (music, photo, video, etc.) then I would have to have drive letters for all of these, which I absolutely don't want.

Can anyone tell me - how come I can easily map to the server root from XP, but not in Vista? Is there something fundamentally different in the networking across the two OS's? Or do I just need to do things a different way?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,

AT

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