fyi,

Alison

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     Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:31:18 -0500
     From: Dave Tewksbury <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
  Subject: Mapping a networked drive in ArcCatalog on computers  
running VISTA or Windows 7
       To: [log in to unmask]

Our small GIS lab runs Windows XP, but current GIS course is over
subscribed and a few students are working on their personal laptops
which are running VISTA. Unlike Windows XP, mapping to a networked drive
from within ArcCatalog on a VISTA machine is not a straight forward
exercise, as this long ongoing discussion on the ESRI site highlights
(http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1727&t=266610).

Thanks to folks in our IT Help Dept a procedure has been worked out to
make mapped networked drives visible in ArcCatalog on VISTA and Windows
7 computers.

*
Windows Vista & Windows 7**
*

    1. Click on the round Vista or Windows 7 button.
    2. *RIGHT *click on *Computer*.
    3. Select *Map network drive* (using the left mouse button)
    4. Choose a drive letter (any available drive is fine)
    5. In the space provided /to the left of/ the *Browse *button type:
       *(path to networked drive)*
    6. Make sure there is a check mark in the box labeled "Reconnect at
       logon".
    7. Entering your credentials
          1. *VISTA*
                1. Click on the link labeled, "Connect using a different
                   name".
                2. In the login window that opens type:  "userid"
                3. Enter your network password
                4. Click on *OK*
                5. Back in the Map network drive window, click on *Finish*
          2. *Windows 7*
                1. Click in the check box labeled, "Connect using
                   different credentials"
                2. Click on *Finish*
                3. In the login window that opens type:  "userid"
                4. Enter your network password
                5. Click on *OK*
    8. The "mapped drive" window will open.*  *You can leave it open or
       close it.*
       *
    9. You can now open ArcCatalog and drive M (or whatever letter you
       picked) will be available from within the application.
   10. *NOTE*: When you boot your computer, you will see a bubble in the
       lower right corner that tells you the drive could not be
       reconnected.  Click on the bubble and then click to open the drive
       (M:).  You will be prompted again to enter your credentials.

-- 
Dave Tewksbury
GIS & Technical Support
Dept of Geosciences
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY  13323
315-859-4709 voice
315-859-4807 fax



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Our small GIS lab runs Windows XP, but current GIS course is over 
subscribed and a few students are working on their personal laptops 
which are running VISTA. Unlike Windows XP, mapping to a networked drive 
from within ArcCatalog on a VISTA machine is not a straight forward 
exercise, as this long ongoing discussion on the ESRI site highlights 
(http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1727&t=266610).

Thanks to folks in our IT Help Dept a procedure has been worked out to 
make mapped networked drives visible in ArcCatalog on VISTA and Windows 
7 computers.

*
Windows Vista & Windows 7**
*

   1. Click on the round Vista or Windows 7 button.
   2. *RIGHT *click on *Computer*.
   3. Select *Map network drive* (using the left mouse button)
   4. Choose a drive letter (any available drive is fine)
   5. In the space provided /to the left of/ the *Browse *button type: 
      *(path to networked drive)*
   6. Make sure there is a check mark in the box labeled "Reconnect at
      logon".
   7. Entering your credentials
         1. *VISTA*
               1. Click on the link labeled, "Connect using a different
                  name".
               2. In the login window that opens type:  "userid"
               3. Enter your network password
               4. Click on *OK*
               5. Back in the Map network drive window, click on *Finish*
         2. *Windows 7*
               1. Click in the check box labeled, "Connect using
                  different credentials"
               2. Click on *Finish*
               3. In the login window that opens type:  "userid"
               4. Enter your network password
               5. Click on *OK*
   8. The "mapped drive" window will open.*  *You can leave it open or
      close it.*
      *
   9. You can now open ArcCatalog and drive M (or whatever letter you
      picked) will be available from within the application.
  10. *NOTE*: When you boot your computer, you will see a bubble in the
      lower right corner that tells you the drive could not be
      reconnected.  Click on the bubble and then click to open the drive
      (M:).  You will be prompted again to enter your credentials.  

-- 
Dave Tewksbury
GIS & Technical Support
Dept of Geosciences
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY  13323
315-859-4709 voice
315-859-4807 fax