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
aboutdoing old tasks in new ways and making complex tasks
simple.