In looking at minimizing resources that may bog down my machine, does having a drive on the network mapped take less resources than having the drive added to My Network Places?
2007-01-31 07:29:58 · 7 answers · asked by Eric C 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
A mapped network drive would be slightly faster - sort of; you got to understand how Network Places really work - mapping a drive creates a direct link to the remote pc (albeit via a unc path, thus creating a logical alias to the unc path), however My Network Places uses a broadcast to get the nearest Master Browser and fill the network list (rather like the browstat command line command).
The operating system automatically browses the network on a frequent basis and puts a shortcut for each share it finds in the My Network Places window. Shortcuts are not really icons for shares, so you won’t see the command for mapping a drive on the menu that appears when you right-click the icon. The shortcuts are handy when you want to access a share, but the only way to map a share is to get to the icon for the real share instead of the icon for its shortcut.
To do this, you must open the Entire Network icon and open the appropriate computer to see its shares. Right-click the icon for the target share and you’ll find the Map Network Drive command on the shortcut menu.
So you see in essence the mapped drive is always better than a virtual list in the My Network Places.
More importantly it affects what operations you are doing using mapped drives or My Network Places, for example some programs will not work very well, if it all, if you try to use a program to save to a Network place (which is often refered to as a 'Special Folder'), whereas a mapped drive will *not* have any problems, in fact even dos programs will work with mapped drives, but not with Unc paths or Special Folders such as the My Network Places.
All programs will work with mapped drives even if they dont support unc paths because although the mapped drive is made up of a unc the program access it physically through a Logical drive letter and the operating system converts it quietly in the background. This isnt a problems with saying draggin and dropping a file between different explorer windows because windows have handled for this operation, but not all other third party programs will.
Stick to Mapped Drives if you are doing a lot of work on them.
2007-01-31 07:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by redbaron101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fast Network Drive
2016-12-18 05:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they're all the same, but mapped network drive allow you to find the machine you want to access faster.
2007-01-31 07:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by my alias 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mapped.
2007-01-31 07:32:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once the lookup is done it makes no difference, they are both just aliases for the same thing. Using a mapped network drive stops Windoze from getting hung up on things it thinks it should be able to see that aren't there though. I never use "My anything" on Windoze, I hate the assumption that I'm too stupid to organize the things myself.
2007-01-31 07:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-18 01:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does
2007-01-31 07:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by Devil Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋