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I have a program that requires a shared folder with 2 drive letters to it. How can I create this? If I map the drives - both pointing to the shared folder, they both have different drive letters but the same name: Example of what I want is below:

shared folder:

D:\SharedFolder

Mapped Drives:

G:\Applied

H:\Tam_Data

If I map them by clicking on map drives, it creates the map, but if I rename G:\Applied, then H:\ also becomes H:\Applied. I also tried adding this in Group policy with a label, but it just gives me the shared folder name.

I am lost, been at this for hours. Thanks

AlwaysLearning
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    It really isn't clear to me what you are asking about here, or what you are expecting. If you access the same share from two locations, then a rename content in the share will apply for any way you access it. – Zoredache Feb 17 '17 at 03:19
  • This makes no sense. What software requires two different drive letters mapped to the same shared folder? – joeqwerty Feb 17 '17 at 03:29
  • Ew, but on the server make `D:\SharedFolder`, share it. Make `D:\SharedFolder\Applied`. Download [SysInternals Junction](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx) and make a junction `D:\SharedFolder\Tam_Data` pointing to `D:\SharedFolder\Applied`. Map G: and H: to `\\server\sharedfolder` from the client. Forget you did this and think they are separate folders, delete one, lose both, data loss hilarity. Forget some backup software can't handle it, broken software hilarity. – TessellatingHeckler Feb 17 '17 at 07:14

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Thanks TessellatingHeckler, that made me think better and found a solution.

I know this makes no sense, but the way Applied Systems TAM works is that it needs a drive G: for its programs and H: for its data ( yet they both have to be in the same drive with a shared folder = D:\Applied )

To fix this with creating a mapped drive, I had to share the D:\Applied folder twice under Properties, Advanced sharing, share it as Applied and the Add another share as TamData

Then I can just map the drives as

G:\Applied H:\Tam_data

that way everything is pointing to the same shared folder of D:\Applied

Thanks for all the responses, it was simple, but my brain could not comprehend it at first.

AlwaysLearning
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