Mapping Network Drives

Posted February 4, 2008

When I got my laptop, I set up a network between it and my desktop. My desktop has my mp3s and website files. I’ve then mapped network drives on my laptop for some of the folders on my desktop that I’m sharing across the network.

I wanted to rename one of the network drives, but Windows is being an ass and won’t let me. It ended up deleting some of the name and won’t let me add anything to the name. So instead of ‘Websites’ I have ‘ebsites’. I have removed the directory from the network and then added it back and re-mapped it, but it still has ‘ebsites’ for the name. :banghead: :censored:

Does anyone out there know if it is possible to rename a mapped network drive? I have Windows XP on both the desktop and the laptop. Any help that anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Added at 7:04pm
Looks like I answered my own question with a little sleuthing on Google. It turns out that I needed to edit the registry. I’m putting this here for further reference for myself. And if it happens to help someone else out, all the better.

  1. Open the registry (put regedit in the run dialog)
  2. Find the following node (I think that’s what it’s called):
    HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2 ##Computer#Share
    — in my case, ##Computer#Share was ##HOME-BASE#WEBSITES
  3. Open up the following key and modify the data value: _LabelFromReg
  4. Close the registry

And that’s it. It’s as simple as that. Now things are all happy, happy again. And so am I.