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Map Network Drive Wizard

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Tom:
I'm new to MultiCommander, maybe I don't know yet all of the many features. As IT employee I have often to work with other devices, so I use often mappings to network shares. I miss functions to connect network shares to drive letters. I know that you can simply start the "map network drive wizard" (known from Windows Explorer) with the following command:
Rundll32 Shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL Connect

I think I could create a user defined command but maybe this would be of public interest and could be generally included to MC.

Unfortunately there is no known command to show the disconnect network drive wizard (known from Windows Explorer) but right-click on a drive letter in the drive bar will show the disconnect command for this single drive.

Mathias (Author):
"map network drive" is in the popup menu when you right click on a network share

Tom:
I'm not sure where you are able to right-click on a network share to see this command. I have set the Commander Style Look& Feel, no tree view visible.

Mathias (Author):
When you browse the network  in MC
eg "NET: - Network" in dropdown  or if you go directly to the server with a path \\server\
then all shares are listed.. and to show popup you then right click or right click and hold, or double right click (all depending on mouse configuration)

Tom:
Ok, I found what you told. But NET: only shows the servers and shares in the same network where my own PC resides. At work we devided the network into several virtual LANs (VLANs). And the network discovery only sees servers and shares within the own VLAN. As far as I understood this is due to the fact that the used protocol for network discovery isn't routed between the VLANs.

So sometimes I still would like the "Map Network Drive Wizard" to connect a drive letter to a Windows share in other VLANs which I cannot "see" with NET:.

What would be the problem to add the command
"Rundll32 Shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL Connect"
globally to a key? I would prefer F11 for "connect network drive".

I'm new to MC, so I have no experience yet with user defined commands and the keyboard customization. I'm pretty sure this can be done locally but I also think this would be of general interest.

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