There are also a number of DOS tools that help with network resources.
They all get executed from a MSDOS prompt

1. Net View - Will list all of the "Servers" machines that are sharing
resources in your workgroup

2. Net view \\(Servername) - Will list all of the resources being shared on
the server.

3. Net Use * \\(Servername)\(Sharename) - Will map the next available drive
letter to the shared resource

Note the following three things regarding Microsoft Networking (Network
neighborhood)

1. If the Workgroup isn't the same on all machines, you probably won't see
some/all machines in Network Neighborhood until the list is updated
(usually 900 seconds - 15 minutes)

2. If you can't see the machine you can type net view \\(machine name), and
you will be able to see the resources on the machine.

3. Until you can see the machine in Network neighborhood you can use the
Net Use command to map network drives.

-Rob

>If what you want to do is to map a drive letter to a network resource, you
>were right in using Map Drive function.
>
>You choose the drive letter in the upper box and in the lower box you would
>type (for our NT network format at least)
>
>\\servername\sharename

>I have been unable to see/locate my network drives. I have tried the "map
>drive" function, however, am not certain if I am using it correctly. Is this
>the correct utility to use? If so how do I use it?
>
>I can still access information through network neighborhood, but this has
>posed some problems with certain software programs, which only allow
>identified drives to search for files. In order to open the file with the
>program I must laboriously go through network neighborhood and a (sometimes)
>very large tree, occasionally employing the "open with" dialogue.



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