Think I figured it out. Wasn't so hard after all. Just RIGHT CLICKED on the drivename in File Explorer and chose rename, renamed it. Voila'. Seems to work. Why did it look so hard.
In the expression: H: g(\\192.168.68.1), to what does the "g" refer?
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It's the name Windows 11 gave to my external drive that is attached to my router when I mapped it.
Can I change it to something more "meaningful?" How?
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2025-07-28T21:00:00.1866667+00:00
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Anonymous
2025-07-26T18:37:47.2533333+00:00 It appears I didn't specify a name for the shared drive share directory and something (windows or router) automatically assigned the name "g" to the share directory. When I mapped it, there were NO directories on H:. Was trying to map the whole drive. Guess I'll have to figure out how to change it or live with it.
Thanks for the help.
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MotoX80 37,681 Reputation points2025-07-26T19:43:28.4433333+00:00 It would have to be the router. You need to consult the documentation for your router to learn how to configure it to share the drive.
I would certainly hope that your router would also implement some kind of authentication mechanism. Otherwise, any machine that gets on your network would have access to the shared drive.
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2025-07-26T00:44:45.18+00:00 Actually, it's the "name" windows gave the external drive when I mapped it:
I'd rather have it named "Network_sto" or something similar. Guess I'll have to do some more research. Actually, I wanted to share the whole drive, not just a directory.
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MotoX80 37,681 Reputation points
2025-07-26T12:55:23.6433333+00:00 my external drive that is attached to my router
Just to verify, your external drive is physically plugged into a USB port on the router. And you logged onto the router using it's web interface (http://192.168.68.1) and configured it to share the drive on the network. (Thats how it is typically done.) Correct?
Or does your router detect that a drive was plugged in, and it automatically shares it out, and you didn't have to do anything?
I would expect the router to use "normal" SMB network sharing to allow all PC's on your network to access that drive.
Open a command prompt (or a Terminal window) and run these 2 commands. Do not launch it with "run as administrator". It needs to run as a standard user because that's how explorer runs.
net use net view \\192.168.68.1Here is an example of what I see on my network. I have 2 Win11 laptops that I am using. The "net use" command shows the drives that I have mapped. The name that gets assigned locally is the drive letter. I can't change the name of the "users" share from this PC. I would need to logon to the PC named Blackhole and change the share name there.
The "net view" command shows me all of the shares that Blackhole has exposed on the network.
I see that the Users share is "Used as" the Z: drive on this PC.
If you see "\\192.168.68.1\G" being referenced, then I suspect that your router is selecting the "G" name and automatically sharing it for you.
If that's the case then as I said, you would need to logon to your routers interface and change the name that it shared the drive as.
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MotoX80 37,681 Reputation points
2025-07-25T21:42:46.54+00:00 Depending on what you are looking at, I would expect it to be the name of the share that you mapped.
Here I mapped the Users share on another pc by both name and IP address.
If you don't like the "G" part, then you will need to connect to your router's user interface and modify its configuration and change the name of the share. You would need to consult your router's documentation to see how to do that.