Conditionally map/unmap a network drive?

[BigToque]

I'm using Windows 8 and I'm frequently moving between home and school. When I'm at school, I need to map a couple of network drives.

I'm just curious if there's a script I can create that runs at login (or that monitors a network device IP address), and then maps and unmaps the network drives when the connection is / is not available.

 

[oynaz]

Lots of options. The simplest is perhaps to create a .bat file and put then in your Startup folder (unless they removed that in Windows8)

Just use net use, like this:

net use s: \\tower\movies

From here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/118452/how-to-map-network-drives-from-the-command-prompt-in-windows/

 

[Mushkins]

Frankly, i'd just map them all to separate letters. If you're on the wrong network it'll just throw a "cant reconnect all network drives" and show you a big red X over the ones on the other network. It'll connect to the ones for the network you're actually on just fine as you switch networks.

 

[blurredvision]

I'm using Windows 8 and I'm frequently moving between home and school. When I'm at school, I need to map a couple of network drives.

I'm just curious if there's a script I can create that runs at login (or that monitors a network device IP address), and then maps and unmaps the network drives when the connection is / is not available.

This sounds doable but would require Powershell. Pull the current IP and do a if statement to unmap/map.

 

[jkauff]

The batch file is the way to go. Win 8 doesn't recognize .bat files out of the box, so put the file on your desktop, double-click, and Win 8 will ask you what program to use to open the file. Navigate to cmd.exe (in Windows\System32 folder), select it, and next time Windows will remember how to open a .bat file. You can also use "Open with..." from the right-click menu and do the same thing.

Run the batch file when you're connected to the network.