Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use
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So is the goal here to just always map the share and not care about the drive letter?
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@DustinB3403 said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
So is the goal here to just always map the share and not care about the drive letter?
Preferably not. But in some cases, you have to adjust the company standard until the standard is changed. If you have a standard of:
F: = \\unc\shared H: = \\unc\homeSince E-H are the Media bay, they can't be used as the company standard, so, new script for those (few) computers with media bays to move the SHARED and HOME drives to available lettes.
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Is the compact flash drive or other empty media card drives ever going to be used?
Some of the computers here have them, but ill be damned if I have ever seen one in use. We do use portable usb with CF or SD slots in them, but the ones built into the case are never used I think.If the situation is the same wher eyou are, I think you could delete them if they exist (if exist m: net use m: //delete) then map the network drive normally. Or you can use GP to replace/update drive letters
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@momurda said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
Is the compact flash drive or other empty media card drives ever going to be used?
Some of the computers here have them, but ill be damned if I have ever seen one in use. We do use portable usb with CF or SD slots in them, but the ones built into the case are never used I think.If the situation is the same wher eyou are, I think you could delete them if they exist (if exist m: net use m: //delete) then map the network drive normally. Or you can use GP to replace/update drive letters
You could delete them if they 'existed'. Windows Explorer does not list them. But Disk Management does.
One option mentioned was to disconnect them if not to be used... problem solved.
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@gjacobse
Yea you could just unplug the usb header on the mobo. -
@momurda said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
@gjacobse
Yea you could just unplug the usb header on the mobo.This or find the powershell script and object names that allow you to find remove the drive letter mapping.
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All of this seems like a lot of hard word versus (with management approval) an email stating -
Starting tomorrow, what used to be the F: drive will now be mapped as the P: drive and what was the H: will now be the R: drive.
Please be aware that any scripts currently using the F: or H: mappings will need to be updated to the new location. Instead of using P: or R:, please use \servername\sharename1 for P: and \servername2\sharename2 for R: This will prevent you from having to update these scripts in the future in the event that these drive letters will need to change.-IT.
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@Dashrender I agree, yet still don't understand the reason for using drive letters in the local drive space that is normally accessed by windows when connecting local storage.
Start from Z and go backwards for any shares.
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@DustinB3403 said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
@Dashrender I agree, yet still don't understand the reason for using drive letters in the local drive space that is normally accessed by windows when connecting local storage.
Start from Z and go backwards for any shares.
It's not greenfield, I'm sure Gene is working from a setup someone else built 15+ years ago before PCs came with all those stupid memory card slots that suck up a letter but don't map into explorer like he mentions.
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@Dashrender said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
@DustinB3403 said in Map Drive Script - Check for Drive letter in use:
@Dashrender I agree, yet still don't understand the reason for using drive letters in the local drive space that is normally accessed by windows when connecting local storage.
Start from Z and go backwards for any shares.
It's not greenfield, I'm sure Gene is working from a setup someone else built 15+ years ago before PCs came with all those stupid memory card slots that suck up a letter but don't map into explorer like he mentions.
I'm sure it was setup longer then 15 years ago sadly.
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How about this to get all drive letters in use?
for %i in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do @%i: 2>nul && set/pz=%i <nul -
GPP can be set to use the next available drive.
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how many computers have the card readers? Instead of messing with the rest of the company's drive letters you could script something like:
diskpart
select vol g
assign letter=bYou have to put the diskpart commands in .txt file and then specify that as the script for diskpart to use, but you get the idea. Just move the local media card reader to a letter that's not used by the company and be done with it.
