If you find it awkward or time-consuming to click your way through My Network Places to a shared workspace, you can map a network drive to it.

A user-defined drive-mapping is for your convenience and is defined at your discretion.

Note: If you are not on a desktop directly in our domain you will need to connect to the VPN first.

• Open "My Computer."
• Click on Tools -> Map Network Drive from the menu bar.
• In the "Drive" drop-down box, choose the drive-letter you want to use for this particular directory.
• Browse to the shared folder you want to map.
• If you are not in our domain and are connecting another way such as through the VPN, Click on "Connecting using a different username."
  Enter CECS\username for the username (inserting your CECS Windows username) then enter your CECS Windows password.
• Check "Reconnect At Login" to make it a 'permanent' connection .
• Click on the "Finish" button.

All done! You are now able to access your shared directory by going to the drive-letter you mapped.

Note: Departmental shared directories are in \\\khensu.cecs.pdx.edu\Dept

The same procedure works to map drives to other directories, as well. The only rule about user-defined drive mappings is that you shouldn't use any of the drive letters that are already mapped -- such as C:, D:, M:, N:, O:, P: or Z:. If you re-assign one of them, it's possible that you wouldn't have access to your home directory (N:) or to supported applications.