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Mark

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Since: Jan 20, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:56 pm
Post subject: How to map drives to dynamic ip addresses
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Hi,

I am in a university department, and we want to map some network drives
across the local departmental network. I have done this by identifying
the computers whose drives are to be mapped via ip addresses.

The problem is that the department has run out of fixed ip addresses, so
the computers need to remain dynamic. This means that the networked
drives work fine as long as they aren't turned off for more than 24
hours. However, if they are, then they will likely be given new ip
addresses and this will break the network drives.

Is there a way to network drives using dynamic ip addresses, or some way
to update the ip addresses automatically if they do get changed? Is
there another way to map the network drives that will avoid this problem?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:01 am
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Kurt

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:44 am
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Yes, you map to the computer name instead of the ip address, i.e.
net use g: \\desktop-01\myshare.

...kurt

"Mark" <nospam RemoveThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
news:dvljn5$jta$1@daisy.noc.ucla.edu...
> Hi,
>
> I am in a university department, and we want to map some network drives
> across the local departmental network. I have done this by identifying the
> computers whose drives are to be mapped via ip addresses.
>
> The problem is that the department has run out of fixed ip addresses, so
> the computers need to remain dynamic. This means that the networked drives
> work fine as long as they aren't turned off for more than 24 hours.
> However, if they are, then they will likely be given new ip addresses and
> this will break the network drives.
>
> Is there a way to network drives using dynamic ip addresses, or some way
> to update the ip addresses automatically if they do get changed? Is there
> another way to map the network drives that will avoid this problem?
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Richard Sharma

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:01 am
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Does the computer you are trying to map a drive from the server see the
server computer name too?
"Mark" <nospam.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:dvljn5$jta$1@daisy.noc.ucla.edu...
> Hi,
>
> I am in a university department, and we want to map some network drives
> across the local departmental network. I have done this by identifying
> the computers whose drives are to be mapped via ip addresses.
>
> The problem is that the department has run out of fixed ip addresses, so
> the computers need to remain dynamic. This means that the networked
> drives work fine as long as they aren't turned off for more than 24
> hours. However, if they are, then they will likely be given new ip
> addresses and this will break the network drives.
>
> Is there a way to network drives using dynamic ip addresses, or some way
> to update the ip addresses automatically if they do get changed? Is
> there another way to map the network drives that will avoid this problem?
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