How do I find where a network drive is mapped to in Windows 7?

Question

How do I find out where a network drive on my work machine is mapped to?

One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other three don't.

Solution 1

Go to Start » Run, type in cmd and press OK.

In the cmd box, paste the following, then press Enter to run it.

wmic path Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType="4" get DeviceID, ProviderName

Doing the above but typing in NET USE instead of copying the above also yields the same result.

Solution 2

In Windows Explorer, you can also switch the view to "Details" and right-click the header to add a column named "Network location":

Helps if the admin has disabled CMD for you (!)

Solution 3

Sometimes the net use or the Win32_LogicalDisk will not show some of the mapped drives, powershell cmd:

gwmi win32_mappedlogicaldisk | select name, providername 

will work then. The corresponding windows cmd is the following:

wmic path win32_mappedlogicaldisk get DeviceID, ProviderName

Comments

[Jimm Chen]

"One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other 3 don't." -- It looks weird. Can you upload an image illustrating this situation?

[Mark Ransom]

Better answer at superuser.com/q/465038/2366.

[pghcpa]

I couldn't find "Network Location" on the list on Win 7 Pro.

[PaloDravecky]

@pghcpa I see the option only in the root of "My Computer", not inside any of the network drives. Are you looking there?

[Ben Plont]

note* This gives the share path, but not the disk path.

[FrankyHollywood]

if your drive is at location '\\name\Data1' you can retrieve the IP by: 'ping name'

[cxw]

Also works on Win8.1 Enterprise. Thanks!