Map drive to shared document library

I am running MS SharePoint 3.0 with SQL 2005 on a Windows Server
2003. Here is my question. I work in an organization where each user
has a drive folder which contains all of their files. Is there a
possible way to set up a shared document library on SharePoint that
maps to their drive folder. Each user will have their own SharePoint
page.

The users drive folders are on a different server then the one the
SharePoint is on.

jholliday
Tue Feb 27 14:54:43 CST 2007

On Feb 27, 9:07 am, "jtrainaldi" <jtraina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running MS SharePoint 3.0 with SQL 2005 on a Windows Server
> 2003. Here is my question. I work in an organization where each user
> has a drive folder which contains all of their files. Is there a
> possible way to set up a shared document library on SharePoint that
> maps to their drive folder. Each user will have their own SharePoint
> page.
>
> The users drive folders are on a different server then the one the
> SharePoint is on.

I am unaware of a way to do this. However, you could make use of
search. You can point to the location of all user directories using
an account that has access. When a user performs a search it will
only show them the files they have the rights to access.

Jeff

Bill
Tue Feb 27 15:41:39 CST 2007

Why not move their files into their My Sites? What you're describing is one
of the main customer scenarios that My Sites were written for in the first
place - to replace network drives/users home folders.

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>
> I am running MS SharePoint 3.0 with SQL 2005 on a Windows Server
> 2003. Here is my question. I work in an organization where each user
> has a drive folder which contains all of their files. Is there a
> possible way to set up a shared document library on SharePoint that
> maps to their drive folder. Each user will have their own SharePoint
> page.
>
> The users drive folders are on a different server then the one the
> SharePoint is on.
>

jtrainaldi
Wed Feb 28 10:57:38 CST 2007

We currently have about 2500+ employee and have a server dedicated to
their data drives. I was thinking that is would really impact the
performance of our sharepoint server.

So there is no way to really have their drive map to a shared document
folder in Sharepoint 3.0.

selar
Thu Mar 01 17:08:27 CST 2007

On Mar 1, 3:57 am, "jtrainaldi" <jtraina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We currently have about 2500+ employee and have a server dedicated to
> their data drives. I was thinking that is would really impact the
> performance of our sharepoint server.
>
> So there is no way to really have their drive map to a shared document
> folder in Sharepoint 3.0.

This applies to Sharepoint Portal Server 2003.

How to map a network drive to a document library:

1. Browse to the document library on the sharepoint portal server as
usual, using your web browser.
2. Ensure you are in the document library itself, not in a webpart for
the library. Clicking on the Webpart title for the document library
will take you into the document library, as will "Manage Content" on
the left navigation pane.
3. Once in the document library, copy the address displayed in the
address bar of your browser
Eg: http://sharepoint/MSDocumentation/Document%20Library/Forms/AllItems.aspx
4. Convert the http URL to a UNC share path
Eg: \\sharepoint\MSDocumentation\Document Library

i.e. we got rid of the http:, converted the forward slashes to
backslashes, converted the %20 to a space, and removed the reference
to a particular file (default.aspx). We also removed the reference to
the Forms folder, as this doesn't contain anything you would want to
modify. If there is a subfolder in the library that contains your
documents, you can specify this folder instead of forms.

5. Use the UNC path to map a network drive from Windows Explorer,
choose Reconnect at logon, if you wish this drive to be mapped
permanently.

You could use the above technique to map everyone's My Documents
folder to a document library in their MySite, using a logon script.

Selar Rao