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I'm on a university computer and don't have admin privileges so I can't download Drive for Desktop, but I can add network locations. I'm wondering if I can add a Google Drive folder this way? I tried searching for it but all the tutorials ask the user to download some software, and if I could do that I'd just use Drive for desktop... Attached is the error message I'm getting.

I want to be able to sync my files easily so I don't have to keep downloading and re-uploading..

Error adding network folder screenshot

I can run certain executables, such as Vivaldi browser executable, perhaps because it only downloads it to my profile? Though I am not 100% sure if that is why it lets me open and download it and not other .exe files.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: okay so because this is impossible I requested temporary admin rights to download the software and it was granted so I just downloaded it lmao... bad news for anyone else trying this who can't get admin rights though.

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I can add network locations. I'm wondering if I can add a Google Drive folder this way?

No, not with built-in tools. Windows supports SMB and WebDAV(S) file shares, but Google Drive offers neither of those.

(Some other cloud file hosting systems, such as Nextcloud, do offer WebDAVS and could be mapped as a "network location" – assuming everything works as it's supposed to.)

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  • There is third-party software that mimics WebDAV functionality to use it with Google Drive but software like that is a non-starter due to the fact the author is not an Administrator.
    – Ramhound
    May 9, 2022 at 15:28
  • okay, thank you for the quick response!
    – Jasper
    May 9, 2022 at 15:35

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