Managing Network Resources Using the Command Line

You can perform drive mappings and printer selections with the command line just as easily as from the GUI. If you find yourself repeating certain network and file operations day after day, it makes sense to try to automate these processes by putting commands into batch files.

The net command comes to us virtually unchanged since the original PC network software developed by Microsoft and IBM debuted in 1984. There are so many variations of the net command that I think of them as separate commands: net view, net use, net whatever. Each net command contains a word that selects a subcommand or operation type.

Interestingly, the net command not only can manage and explore your network, it also can ...

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