USB Card Reader overuling mapped network drives

TriedandTested · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:11

Hey hey,

We have a new usb memory card reader (the ones with multiple slots for different cards) and it seems to be taking priority over the user's mapped network drives, ie the drive mapped to some resouces on the network is being used by the card.

Before i go and do it would the best solution be to use Computer Management to change the drive letters...reason i ask is i'm not 100% sure it'll remember to use these driver letters each time the USB device is plugged in.

Thanks!

Burbleflop · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:13

Tried&Tested said:
reason i ask is i'm not 100% sure it'll remember to use these driver letters each time the USB device is plugged in.

Try it and see? As far as I remember it doesn't matter which port I plug my reader into, the drive letter it gets assigned is always the same.

TriedandTested · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:28

I will try it..but the user's office isn't free until the morning so thought i'd check here first and maybe save me some hassle.

I can understand what you say about what drive letters the reader has assigned..but currently the ones it seems to like are already mapped and it bumps them off!..cheeky fellow.

I was just looking for some confirmation that assigning the reader other driver letters would be remembered when it's plugged in next time and not go for the network ones again.

vanandjuanunited · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:30

Can you not map the network drives to X or Y then it wont overwrite them.

TriedandTested · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:30

Wish it were that simple..but sadly it's been like that long before i started and is they way they refer to certain shared areas. They are also teachers...

nrh1703 · 14 Sep 2006 at 12:07

a bit late in the day but I mount the drives in NTFS folders somewhere easy to access (e.g. on the desktop).

Different cards (CF, SD) appear differently using my internal card reader so I have folders labelled SD Card and CF Card. The icons look like the normal HD icon too so things are quite straight forward for the user.

I saw an app that ran as a service to always map usb/mem cards to specific drives to avoid conflicts with network drives. It didn't work too well for me so I ditched it.