Mapping A Shared Drive Through Sharepoint

Question

I am trying to create a shared drive for my company. Is there a way to map SharePoint so that everyone has access via their File Explorer on their Microsoft Desktop?

Answer 1

Hi Bonnie,

May I know if you have checked my reply above in regard of sharing your document library with other users in your company and connecting the document library with their File Explorer? Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Best Regards,

Nathan

Answer 2

I am trying to create a shared drive for my company. Is there a way to map SharePoint so that everyone has access via their File Explorer on their Microsoft Desktop?

To answer your question correctly - no, YOU can't create a shared drive for your organization to access SP. This isn't something that can be done for users by an admin. Each user will have to create and maintain their own local connection to SP. The options are mapping a drive or creating network locations. Neither are ideal because the authentication tokens used to maintain the connection will expire, but network locations are generally more reliable and persistent. If users restart their machines or clear their cookies, they'll have to reestablish the webDav connection via IE.

To make that easier I have users add a location for the root site and the my site to their favorites in IE. That way when they get the "can't access" error, they can reconnect the network locations with a couple of clicks.

Being able to access SP via file explorer is so obviously the easiest way to work with SP, it's a shame Msft doesn't improve this process, instead of wasting their time (and our money) on things no one cares about.

Answer 3

Thank You, this was helpful

Answer 4

Hi Bonnie,

You may share a document library on your SharePoint Online site so that every person in your company have access to it. Here are the steps:

1. Create a new document library: click the gear icon in the top right of your SharePoint site > Site Contents > click "+ New" > Document library;
2. In the new document library, click the gear icon > Library settings > Permissions for this document library > Stop Inheriting Permission > Grant Permissions > enter "Everyone except external users" > Share;
3. Connect the document library with File Explorer: Ways to work with site library files in File Explorer

Please let us know if you have any further concerns.

Best Regards,

Nathan