This is a description of some of the standard drive letters that you may see. Individual users, accounts and computers will vary
Local Drives:
C: Primary hard drive on your local PC. This is not backed up
H: Local CD/DVD drive if PC has one.
Network Drives: Available on any WSLH PC you log into
- Access to the various network locations are controlled by group permissions of the account
- Talk to your supervisor if you have problems accessing a location on the network that you need for work
- They will submit a Service Desk ticket requesting access for you
- Be sure to provide your Supervisor with the entire path name
K: Your Home directory share.
- Only you have access to your home directory
- For work that you do here at the lab that doesn't need to be shared with anyone else. (Performance reviews, copies of HR forms...)
- Remember this is a State organization and follows their rules
L: Associated with the software share on the server
- Maybe used directly; in which case your individual training by your department will go into details on its use
- Maybe used indirectly and shortcuts will run from there. or not at all
M: - Location for division and departmental specific files.
- For files specific to your Division, Section and Department
- Based on you permissions groups, you may have various Read, Write or Modify access to specific folders and files
- Not designed for instrument data.
O: Think of "O" as the "Organizational" drive
- Files that are shared with multiple departments across the Lab
- Forms used across the lab
- Organizational Charts
- Team folders
Your department may have special drive letters it uses outside of the standard mapping. See Drive Mapping