Connect a network drive

Connecting a network drive to Windows 7 is a wise and practical solution on your part. Now I will explain why. The one who organized a local network in his home, constantly uses certain data that are on other computers, using this very local network.

In order for the convenience of your work to increase, you can connect a network drive to your computer. What it is? This is just a network folder, which is connected in such a way that your computer or laptop will see it as your own hard drives. A letter is assigned to it, after which you can simply forget that it is actually located on another device.

In order for you to connect your Windows 7 network drive to your computer or laptop, open the standard explorer located in the "Standard" folder. To do this, click the "Start" button, select "All Programs" from the menu that appears, expand the "Standard" tab. There will be necessary to us "Explorer", it and run. When you do, locate the menu at the top, which is called "Service". Open it and select "Mount network drive". At this point, the appropriate window should be opened, in which we will set the necessary settings.

The first thing to do is select the desired letter in the unfolded window. Once you do this, your network drive will assign it to yourself. I note that you can choose only the letter that has not been used by other devices (hard disks, CD-ROM drive, disk drives, etc.). After that, you need to specify the exact location of the directory. You must specify the required path to the folder that you want to use as a network drive. This can be done in various ways. For example, you can enter the exact address using the keyboard, and you can also locate this resource by clicking on the "Browse" button. The latter way will be much more convenient and faster.

An important condition: during the implementation of this procedure, the device on which this folder is physically located must necessarily be included. Otherwise, you will not be able to do anything, because your computer or laptop simply can not see the necessary directory.

In the event that you want to connect on behalf of some other user, you need to check the box for the use of other credentials. After that you will have to fill in all the necessary data of a particular user in the window that appears in front of you right after you confirm your choice with the "Done" button.

Upon completion of all the above actions, in your window called "Computer", a group called "Network Places" should appear. There will be reflected your new network folder.

Disconnect the network drive in the same way. Call the Explorer window, select the function of disconnecting the network drive from the "Tools" menu. In the window that appears, select the disk that you no longer need, and confirm with "OK".