[avhception]

I remember vividly when a user couldn't access his smb drive from Windows because both his printer and also the computer's case came with one of these multi-cardreaders with n slots and the drive letters collided. That's when I learned that smb drive letters don't even come from the "global" pool of drive letters, because, and this is obvious in hindsight, they are a per-user affair (credentials and all that).

I think the concept of drive letters is flawed.

[mrweasel]

Even Microsoft appears to agree with you, given that drive letters are symlinks. It's basically legacy, there's just no plan or reasonable path forward that will remove them.

[bluGill]

Drive letters made sense in 1981 for personal computers. Of course a network run by IT isn't personal anymore - by definition.

[p_ing]

I always tried to point people to DFS w/ the FQDN path. We added a shortcut to the user's desktop that pointed to their home folder on the DFS namespace.