Re: How do you wintrolls...

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-0F14A7.07482725032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <rt6dneE9hINvm1fUnZ2dnUVZ_oKWnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dan Johnson" <danieljohnson2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It keeps telling me to disconnect
> from the mapped drive, but doesn't actually have any place where you > can
> do it.

You do this by right clicking on the network drive, and choosing the
"Disconnect" option from the context menu.

Sorry, but I tried that. Didn't work.

Ah, well. Just trying to help. And now you know where to go next time. :D

(I assume you didn't try it until I told you; after all, you wouldn't just be pretending that it has no place to disconnect a mapped drive when you knew that it did, would you? Of course not!)

[snip]
Anyway, mapped network drives are a DOS-ism. While they can be useful for
backwards compatibility for apps that don't understand UNC paths, it's quite
likely you don't actually have any of those. For quick access to frequently
used locations, you can place shortcuts in the Explorer sidebar, the start
menu, the quick launch bar, the desktop, up your nose, wherever really. I
recommend the sidebar: it's available in the new open/save dialogs.

I didn't need a shortcut for use over and over. I need to connect *once*
to an old drive using credentials from that old system.

The only reason I used "map" was it was the only place that offered the
option to use different credentials *at all*.

It prompts for credentials when you access the remote computer, if your current credentials do not match any on that computer. I have just checked it, and it is sufficient if the passwords don't match.

However, if they *do* match, it tries to use them. If this results in an 'access denied', then you just get an error.

You can think of it as a low rent Active Directory. Except it isn't active. Or a directory.

[snip]
This is really a very common problem; most people don't like change, after
all.

I suggest you let Vista be Vista. Forget the menu bar and the mapped drives;
it'll serve you better if you do.

How do you suggest you do all the commands that are still in the menu
bar if you don't use the menu bar?

They are in the menu bar for the greybeards. They are also in other places. For instance, you can arrange, sort, group, and stack in the view menu- but it's more direct to do it in column caption controls. There's a spruced up UI there, and that's also the advanced search UI. The view menu just a menu. It's less capable and more awkward to use.


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