> When looking in My Computer the path name does not show up for each
> network drive, it just simply says "Network Drive". In all previous
> version of windows the drive was displayed as "X connect on someserver".
> I was wondering if there is an option to display the path as the drive
> label. I know I can rename the drive, but we have logon scripts that
> automatically map drives and it would be a pain to have each user manaully
> rename the drive.
> If you look on the WinXP.bmp, it displays the network path of the shared
> drive. This is not the case on the Vista version.
>
>
> "Prashanth Prahalad [MSFT]" <prashp@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23FAzXgxpGHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...>> Can you post screen-shot of what you are seeing ?>
>>
>> "Strunc,Nicholas" <nick_strunc@securecomputing.com> wrote in message
>> news:0507710F-A38F-45E8-8F5C-623154C1BC6A@microsoft.com...>>> When looking in My Computer the path name does not show up for each>>
>>> network drive, it just simply says "Network Drive". In all previous
>>> version of windows the drive was displayed as "X connect on someserver".
>>> I was wondering if there is an option to display the path as the drive
>>> label. I know I can rename the drive, but we have logon scripts that
>>> automatically map drives and it would be a pain to have each user
>>> manaully rename the drive.
>>
> Got to view> Choose details. Is name and network location box's checked?
>
> Rex Geissinger
> "Strunc,Nicholas" <nick_strunc@securecomputing.com> wrote in message
> news:4BCF7A9D-127C-4CE7-A969-90B8B4894E39@microsoft.com...>> If you look on the WinXP.bmp, it displays the network path of the shared>
>> drive. This is not the case on the Vista version.
>>
>>
>> "Prashanth Prahalad [MSFT]" <prashp@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:%23FAzXgxpGHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...>>> Can you post screen-shot of what you are seeing ?>>
>>>
>>> "Strunc,Nicholas" <nick_strunc@securecomputing.com> wrote in message
>>> news:0507710F-A38F-45E8-8F5C-623154C1BC6A@microsoft.com...
>>>> When looking in My Computer the path name does not show up for each
>>>> network drive, it just simply says "Network Drive". In all previous
>>>> version of windows the drive was displayed as "X connect on
>>>> someserver".
>>>> I was wondering if there is an option to display the path as the drive
>>>> label. I know I can rename the drive, but we have logon scripts that
>>>> automatically map drives and it would be a pain to have each user
>>>> manaully rename the drive.
>>>
>>>
> Can you post screen-shot of what you are seeing ?
>
> "Strunc,Nicholas" <nick_strunc@securecomputing.com> wrote in message
> news:0507710F-A38F-45E8-8F5C-623154C1BC6A@microsoft.com...>> When looking in My Computer the path name does not show up for each>
>> network drive, it just simply says "Network Drive". In all previous
>> version of windows the drive was displayed as "X connect on someserver".
>> I was wondering if there is an option to display the path as the drive
>> label. I know I can rename the drive, but we have logon scripts that
>> automatically map drives and it would be a pain to have each user
>> manaully rename the drive.
>
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