Hi,

My OS is Windows XP. I mapped a drive on another machine running
Windows 2000.
I set the permission of the mapped drive on the Windows 2000 machine
to be "accessible to everyone". On the Windows XP machine I can access
the mapped drive through Explore. By one of my third party software
can not access the mapped drive if I only use the drive ID of the
mapped drive, like E:. If I use UNC, e.g., \\host\\directory, the
third party software can access that drive.
What is the problem?

Thanks.

Jack

Jack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My OS is Windows XP. I mapped a drive on another machine running
> Windows 2000.
> I set the permission of the mapped drive on the Windows 2000 machine
> to be "accessible to everyone". On the Windows XP machine I can access
> the mapped drive through Explore. By one of my third party software
> can not access the mapped drive if I only use the drive ID of the
> mapped drive, like E:. If I use UNC, e.g., \\host\\directory, the
> third party software can access that drive.
> What is the problem?

Contact the tech support for that third-party software. They will be
able to tell you.


Malke
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On Mar 1, 4:49 am, Malke <notrea...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Jack wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > My OS is Windows XP. I mapped a drive on another machine running
> > Windows 2000.
> > I set the permission of the mapped drive on the Windows 2000 machine
> > to be "accessible to everyone". On the Windows XP machine I can access
> > the mapped drive through Explore. By one of my third party software
> > can not access the mapped drive if I only use the drive ID of the
> > mapped drive, like E:. If I use UNC, e.g., \\host\\directory, the
> > third party software can access that drive.
> > What is the problem?
>
> Contact the tech support for that third-party software. They will be
> able to tell you.
They said it is Windows XP's problem. Does anybody know why UNC works
but mapped drive does not work?

Thanks.