Mapping a drive letter to your local machine from the MyServer remote desktop

When you are on the remote desktop as part of MyServer you may want to access data frequently on your local desktop (or laptop) machine. 

To do this, you must first make available your local resources - drives when you log in.  Please first read the section regarding Transfers via Remote Desktop of the User Manual first then return here.

If you wish to map your drive letter to be a deeper nested folder on your local disc drive, you can on the folders box type "\\tsclient\c\Documents and Settings\mark\Desktop" etc.  Obviously you will need to change the username "mark" in this last example to your local username you created on your PC.

Alternatively, there is nothing stopping you from not mapping a drive letter, but instead creating a short-cut link to this local PC folder on the remote desktop.  To do this, open Explore (not Internet Explorer) on the remote desktop then in the address bar type "\\tsclient\c".  Now navigate down to the appropriate sub folder on your local machine.  Now when you click on the folder, the address bar will now show the path. Copy this to the clipboard by highlighting all the text and right click and select "Copy" from the popup menu.

Now on the remote desktop, right click and choose from the pop up menu "New" then "Shortcut".  For the location, paste the path from the address bar from above, but remember to place the path in quotes to cater for spaces in the path like this:-

"\\tsclient\c\Documents and Settings\mark\My Documents"

Click "Next" then name the shortcut whatever you want and click "Finish".  Now all you have to do is to double click to open to prove your shortcut link works.

Drive mappings back to your local machine can be scripted too, the script would look something like:-

@echo off
net use z: \\tsclient\c

or another example, something like:-

@echo off
net use z: "\\tsclient\c\Documents and Settings\mark\Desktop"

Notes:-

• If there are spaces in your folder names or files names you will need to wrap them in quotation marks as per some of the examples above.
• If you are using drive letters on the remote desktop machine back to your local machine, you can use the MyServer "filecopy" function to copy only new or updated files over your slow broadband link.  This will ensure that the copy is as efficient as possible.  To do this select "Start" then "Run" then type "filecopy" and press return.  See MyServer for Backups but remember to alter the source path as it may now will begin with "\\tsclient\c" since you are calling it from the remote desktop.