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ASSIGN A DRIVE LETTER TO YOUR NETWORK ATTACHED SERVER Presented By John Krout In January 2024, on my Windows laptop, I began using a free Windows application called Watch Face Studio, published by Samsung. By March, I realized I had created a huge number of watch faces, and I wanted to store the design files on my NAS instead of my laptop. However, the Watch Face Studio application refused to recognize NAS as a valid storage space, specifically because the storage address contained “invalid characters”, such as \\192.168.1.1. Because of that, I looked into a Windows technique called Map Network Drive. That method, available on both Windows 10 and Windows 11, enables you to assign any unused drive letter to your NAS. I chose to assign drive N to my NAS. After doing that, Watch Face Studio stores and retrieves watch face files on drive N with no complaint whatsoever. It is a technique that is applied to each individual computer, not all at once. The presentation will include why and how to establish the drive mapping using File Explorer. The methods differ a good bit in Windows 11 and Window 10. John Krout is a frequent presenter at our meetings on a wide range of computer, technology and photography topics, and author of many articles for the PATACS Posts newsletter. He also presents for national APCUG Wednesday Workshops and Saturday Safaris, and contributes articles to APCUG's library of shared newsletter content. .