Drive buttons and Drive combo for network shares

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joebananas
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Drive buttons and Drive combo for network shares

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Is it possible to create drive buttons for network shares and have network shares appear in the drive combobox? The shares appear correctly in under "This PC" in the drive combobox. It seems like we should be able to make the "This PC" list appear in the combobox.

Here's the reason for this need. We have two companies that merged. The amount of data in the new enterprise makes it impossible to use mapped drive letters effectively so we're doing away with them. Windows Explorer shows network shares correctly, under the local drives. If we can't get users easy access to the network shares in TC I'm afraid they'll stop using TC in favor of just using Explorer.
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You can use the directory hotlist (Ctrl+D) to save as many shares as you like.

The drive list and drive bar are more or less static, they depend on the drives in your system and show drives only - with the exception of My Computer/This PC, My Documents and Network Neighborhood.

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Is it possible to create drive buttons for network shares and have network shares appear in the drive combobox?
You can assign a Network Share to a drive letter using TC's internal command cm_NetConnect - once that is done, the dive is shown in the drive button bar and the drive combobox.
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You can assign a Network Share to a drive letter using TC's internal command cm_NetConnect - once that is done, the dive is shown in the drive button bar and the drive combobox.
As I mentioned, we're moving away from drive letters and sticking to sharenames. The last thing I want is for my users to start creating their own drive letters for my network sharenames. That's all I need is for 200+ people all with different drive letters for the same share trying to tell one another where to get the files they're looking for..
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