Windows 8 In Depth

Mapping a Drive to a Subfolder

When you’re setting up a drive mapping, as described in the previous section, and you use the Browse button to select a shared folder, you may notice that Windows lets you delve into the shared folders themselves. If you drill down into a subfolder and select it as the location to use in mapping a drive letter, you’ll find that the mapped drive starts at the subfolder. That is, the subfolder becomes the mapped drive’s “root directory,” and you can’t explore upward into the shared folder that contains it. You can map a drive letter to a subfolder using the GUI method described in the preceding section, or using the net use command-line utility described later.

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Once administrators have configured this sort of ...