One of the common challenges facing distributed teams is a lack of shared network resources and common drive names. Often times there will be shared libraries, schematic documents, and reference materials that are used by multiple engineers for a company, and are often used to make schematics more helpful with reference links. How do you solve the problem of no common network drives to reference? In the past, this has been solved with VPNs into a main site. Now, though, many teams are using Dropbox and may not have an IT resource to set up a VPN.
Another way to solve this problem is to use the “subst” command with Windows. If everyone has a common folder that is shared on Dropbox, you can use the command:
subst V: “Z:\Dropbox\Trunk\Web Sites\MichaelTBarber\Sheets\Libraries”
This will map the V: drive to the location pointed to in quotations. To map a company dblib without having to change it for every user, reference this V: drive.