Yes, you map to the computer name instead of the ip address, i.e.
net use g: \\desktop-01\myshare.
...kurt
"Mark" <nospam DeleteThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am in a university department, and we want to map some network drives
> across the local departmental network. I have done this by identifying the
> computers whose drives are to be mapped via ip addresses.
>
> The problem is that the department has run out of fixed ip addresses, so
> the computers need to remain dynamic. This means that the networked drives
> work fine as long as they aren't turned off for more than 24 hours.
> However, if they are, then they will likely be given new ip addresses and
> this will break the network drives.
>
> Is there a way to network drives using dynamic ip addresses, or some way
> to update the ip addresses automatically if they do get changed? Is there
> another way to map the network drives that will avoid this problem? >> Stay informed about: How to map drives to dynamic ip addresses 
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