Windows drive mapping conventions

Network drive letter assignments are completely arbitrary in the Windows
world. Many companies have a scheme that they use, but there is no
"recommended" scheme.

My company uses 'G:' as a departmental shared drive, while 'H:' is the
user's personal network drive. If you ask 100 different companies,
personally, I would expect somewhere around 80 different answers. We
assign the CDRom drive to letter 'Z:' on all our deployments, mainly for
consistency. Some people have just a C: drive, some may have a D:, or
perhaps even E: or F:, depending on partitioning, zip/usb/other external
devices. At least we know that their cdrom drive should be Z:.

Even with our naming scheme, I can never guess what someone is trying to
access when they say "I can't get to my F: drive!" Or at least I can
never assume to know what drive they're trying to access.

Just thought I'd share! :)

    -- Dorian

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Patrick Fleming
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:48 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Windows drive mapping conventions



Chris Gehlker wrote:

>> Many hardware manufacturers use the R: & S: drives for CD, CD-R, DVD
>> drives so while it might sound good, it may require 're-assigning'
the
>> letter of the drive on some machines.
>
>
> There had to be a reason to avoid S: for shared. I thought the
> convection was that optical drives are G: and H:.

Many 'server' drives are mapped to S: in business evironments. My
previous employer mapped the server to S: as well as a company they
acquired (the acquired co used an entirely different server OS so that
created its own problems)

Patrick

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