Hacks 48-53

Hacks #48-53

File and print is the traditional bread and butter of networking, and while it's gradually being overtaken by more advanced document-management solutions, not may companies are planning on retiring their file servers soon. Managing shared folders and printers also makes up a major component of an administrator's daily routine, and a high proportion of calls to the help desk as well. So it's worth examining some new ways to do old tasks , such as mapping drives or configuring default printers, as well as some ways to perform tasks that are not easy using standard Windows tools, including mapping the structure of a directory or determining who has a certain file open on the network. That's what this chapter is about ”doing old tasks in new ways and making complex tasks simple.