How do I find where a network drive is mapped to in Windows 7?

Question

How do I find out where a network drive on my work machine is mapped to?

One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other three don't.

"One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other 3 don't." -- It looks weird. Can you upload an image illustrating this situation? — Jimm Chen, Feb 01 '12 at 12:13

PaloDravecky · Answer 1 · 2018-03-08T16:56:44.143

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In Windows Explorer, you can also switch the view to "Details" and right-click the header to add a column named "Network location":

Windows Explorer Network Location

Helps if the admin has disabled CMD for you (!)

edited Mar 08 '18 at 16:56

answered Nov 06 '14 at 09:51

PaloDravecky

I couldn't find "Network Location" on the list on Win 7 Pro. – pghcpa Sep 24 '15 at 22:54
@pghcpa I see the option only in the root of "My Computer", not inside any of the network drives. Are you looking there? – PaloDravecky Sep 25 '15 at 08:13
note* This gives the share path, but not the disk path. – Ben Plont Jan 23 '18 at 18:37
if your drive is at location '\\name\Data1' you can retrieve the IP by: 'ping name' – FrankyHollywood May 18 '18 at 13:26
Also works on Win8.1 Enterprise. Thanks! – cxw Jan 25 '19 at 14:59

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '13 at 09:56

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Go to Start » Run, type in cmd and press OK.

In the cmd box, paste the following, then press Enter to run it.

wmic path Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType="4" get DeviceID, ProviderName

Doing the above but typing in NET USE instead of copying the above also yields the same result.

edited Jul 24 '13 at 09:56

slhck

answered Feb 01 '12 at 11:30

Iain Simpson

Frank · Answer 3 · 2016-10-17T14:55:41.883

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Sometimes the net use or the Win32_LogicalDisk will not show some of the mapped drives, powershell cmd:

gwmi win32_mappedlogicaldisk | select name, providername

will work then. The corresponding windows cmd is the following:

wmic path win32_mappedlogicaldisk get DeviceID, ProviderName

edited Oct 17 '16 at 14:55

answered Oct 17 '16 at 14:50

Frank

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