Custom name for connected server

[BiOsLaSh]

I'm a lone Mac in a Windows wilderness so there are several servers that everyone refers to the "P Drive" or "N Drive" as that is how they are automatically mapped on all the PCs and how everyone talks about them them (e.g. "The file is on the P Drive."). I'm connecting to them just fine on my Mac but I'm wondering if there is a setting/script I can implement that will automatically change the name of those servers, when I'm connected to them, on my Mac from what they are actually called (e.g "maindata2" ) to "P Drive". I have created aliases for each drive that I've named appropriately and lets me connect to the right drive and folder but when the actual server mounts it is named the actual name like "maindata2".

Any ideas?

 

[hobowankenobi]

I doubt it. Windows standards dictate naming conventions. The shares are named that on the server...not the clients.

How about mounting the shares, and then make an alias to the directories on each share you want, which (hopefully) have a reasonable naming convention? You can keep the alias/shortcut on your desktop, Dock, or Finder Sidebar.

 

[BiOsLaSh]

Huh, kind of what I figured. Too bad. Yeah, I already created aliases.

 

[hobowankenobi]

Huh, kind of what I figured. Too bad. Yeah, I already created aliases.

Yeah. Ancient protocol, likely from the early '70s at least:


Applying the scheme...on a fairly modern Windows-based system typically results in the following drive letter assignments:

• A: — Floppy disk drives, 3 1⁄2″ or 5 1⁄4″, and possibly other types of disk drives, if present.
• B: — Reserved for a second floppy drive (that was present on many PCs).
• C: — First hard disk partition.
• D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled here. Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the next drive it encounters while enumerating the disk drives on the system. Drives can be partitioned, thereby creating more drive letters. This applies to MS-DOS, as well as all Windows operating systems. Windows offers other ways to change the drive letters, either through the Disk Management snap-in or diskpart. MS-DOS typically uses parameters on the line loading device drivers inside the CONFIG.SYS file.

Case-specific drive letters:

• F: — First network drive if using Novell NetWare.
• H: — "Home" directory on a network server.
• L: — Dynamically assigned load drive under Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager and REAL/32.[6][7]
• M: — Drive letter for optionally memory drive MDISK under Concurrent DOS.[6]
• N:, O:, P: — Assignable floating drives under CP/M-86 4.x, Personal CP/M-86 2.x, DOS Plus 1.1-2.1 (via BDOS call 0Fh), a concept later extended to any unused drive letters under Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager, REAL/32 and DR DOS up to 6.0.[6][7]
• Q: — Microsoft Office Click-to-Run virtualization.
• U: — Unix-like unified filesystem with virtual directory \DEV for device files under MiNT, MagiC, and MultiTOS.[8][9]
• Z: — First network drive if using Banyan VINES, and the initial drive letter assignment for the virtual disk network in the DOSBox x86 emulator. It is also the first letter selected by Windows for network resources, as it automatically selects from Z: downwards.