Faculty, staff and student workers may have access to specific departmental file shares on STORE01
Does my department have a departmental file share?
Many departments have saved documents in a shared departmental drive on STORE01. Your departmental co-workers may refer to this shared storage as the "Z:" drive or some other drive letter. Unlike the T: drive which is automatically mapped for you during Windows login on any Tarleton computer, the departmental drive is not automatically mapped and has no assigned drive letter. You may or may not have permissions to the shared departmental drive. Your supervisor must request this permission on your behalf.
Assuming you have been granted the necessary permission to access a shared departmental drive, you may elect to map a drive letter to the shared location. It is recommended that you map the shared drive to the same drive letter as your departmental co-workers. This is beneficial when others are referring to files or folders on the "Z:" drive or "X:" - you want the same drive letter mapped to the commonly shared departmental storage location.
Before you can map a drive letter to the shared departmental storage location, you must first know the full path to the location.
How do I find the path to my departmental file share?
There is no published list of departmental file shares. Most departmental file shares follow one of the following naming conventions:
\\STORE01\userdata\NameOfShare
\\STORE01\NameOfShare
The recommended method of determining the path to your departmental file share is to observe and note the path shown on a co-worker's computer. This needs to be a co-worker who has previously been granted the necessary permissions and has already mapped a drive to the departmental share. At this co-worker's Window's computer with the co-worker already logged in, follow these steps:
- Open File Explorer
- Observe the drive letters shown under This PC
- You will see drive letters with \\store01\ paths. This may include the co-worker's T: drive which you can ignore.
- Ask your co-worker which drive represents the departmental share.
You can now follow the example below to determine the full path to the share.
Example:
For purposes of illustration, we will assume that your co-worker has identified his Z: drive as the shared location. You wish to have your own Z: drive mapped to this same shared location.
On your co-worker's Windows computer in File Explorer under This PC, you observe this detail for his Z: drive:
- Tarleton (\\store01\userdata) (Z:)
In this example, the name of the share is Tarleton. In parentheses, the home location of the share is shown as \\store01\userdata. Putting these two together, we can now determine the full path to this shared location is \\store01\userdata\Tarleton. You must use this full path when mapping the Z: drive on your Tarleton computer.