Instead of sharing each disk separately and map each folder,isn't there a tweak to share and map every drive content available to a PC so i can map all at once to a nearby computer?

That would make my life a whole lot easier.

You would share out at the root level (C to grant access to all the entire contents of the PC. You would still need to map each PC to each other.

In this case most places would use a centralized server and share all information at that point to reduce the amount of drive mappings, etc.

I meant map all the drives altogether.

Instead of sharing every root (C-D-E etc) is there a way to map the whole workgroup into one?

Nope.. centralized server is the route you'd want to go in that case.

What is an example of a centralized server?

You could take a single PC with a large hard drive, create a single share on it and have all the data stored on that PC. All of the other PCs would map to that single PC and access their data from 1 location.

This way you wouldn't be sharing out all the PCs and cross mapping them. That single PC would always have to be on for all computers to access. With that, you could run a backup on the PC storing all the information and back up all PCs at once.

Hope that makes sense.. Ideally you would put in a seperate hard drive to store all the data. If the PC goes down, you just take the hard drive out and put it into another PC.

That's what do.I have one PC with 2 internal hard drives of 300GB and some external 500GB drives,and i access them from other computers,but i want to creating a single mapping instead of lots of them for every single drive this computer has.

Create a single share point and put everything under that.. sounds like you're over complicating everything.

Make the one share and all the data is under there. Each PC maps to 1 point and its done. If you need security, setup security so no one can access each other's stuff.

Well I mean how can that be done?IT seems that i am indeed overcomplicating things but that's due to my lack of knowledge on the networking section.

All i ve done is right click on each of my drives and set sharing and security and created individual shares.

But since that's not practical of course,i made this topic so I can get instructions on how to deal with single sharing lots of drives.

So how shall i make a single share that includes all of the drives?

What information are you sharing out from each PC?

What you want to be doing is storing all the data on one PC, sharing that drive out, and then having each PC map a single drive to the shared PC.

1 Share, all computers mapped to that one share.