How do I map a network drive so that any user that logs in the PC could see it in Windows 7?

Question

I have a PC here that needs to connect to a network drive to receive data. Multiple users will log in with their own accounts to do research with the data from that same network drive. I want to know if there is a way that i could map the network drive one time so that everybody who logs in will see the drive and won't have to map it themselves. The PC is Windows 7 pro. thank you

Answer 1

You mentioned that the accounts are on the domain, and you are the domain admin, and so this article goes over what you're asking. It shows you multiple ways of determining which users should have access to the network drive, if you don't want to map it for all your users.

Basically you have to setup a security group in AD with the users for which you want to map the network drive. There are other ways to map network drives, such as running a script on startup, if you need more complex logic, but typically doing it by security group is the easiest way to do it.