Windows drive mapping conventions

100 companies, 80 different answers. There really is no 'standard' for
drive mapping unless it's a mixed Netware/WIndows network. I know that
with Netware, Z: > (last unused): are used for search paths.
In Windows 200 and above, Z: is also used for the net login script then
self removes.

Dorian.Monroe@cox.net wrote:

>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

>
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>Patrick Fleming
>Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:48 PM
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>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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