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mount: document remotes as network shares on Windows 

Provided instructions for mounting remotes as network shares/network drives in a Windows environment
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Fernando 2019-11-27 12:40:24 +01:00 committed by Nick Craig-Wood
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which creates drives accessible for everyone on the system or
alternatively using [the nssm service manager](https://nssm.cc/usage).
#### Mount as a network drive
By default, rclone will mount the remote as a normal drive. However, you can also mount it as a **Network Drive**
(or **Network Share**, as mentioned in some places)
Unlike other systems, Windows provides a different filesystem type for network drives.
Windows and other programs treat the network drives and fixed/removable drives differently:
In network drives, many I/O operations are optimized, as the high latency and low reliability
(compared to a normal drive) of a network is expected.
Although many people prefer network shares to be mounted as normal system drives, this might cause
some issues, such as programs not working as expected or freezes and errors while operating with the
mounted remote in Windows Explorer. If you experience any of those, consider mounting rclone remotes as network shares,
as Windows expects normal drives to be fast and reliable, while cloud storage is far from that.
See also [Limitations](#limitations) section below for more info
Add `--fuse-flag --VolumePrefix=\server\share` to your `mount` command, **replacing `share` with any other
name of your choice if you are mounting more than one remote**. Otherwise, the mountpoints will conflict and
your mounted filesystems will overlap.
[Read more about drive mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_mapping)
### Limitations
Without the use of "--vfs-cache-mode" this can only write files