Ah ha! That's how I used to do it with Win98, but if I recall, I tried it in
my autoexec.bat file with XP, and it was not happy. Is there a trick to
making the SUBST command work with XP?
And by the way, thank you for your help thus far.
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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The subst command, designed to make Dos 1 programs work on Dos 2 or later
(no sub directories in Dos 1, only drive letters) is the correct way to do
it. Type subst /? for help.
eg
subst p: c:\para
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"Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> It doesn't matter much want the "sharename" is, because to make the
> "DOS" program see and use it you will then MAP it as "P:"
>
> Doug Kanter wrote:
>
>> Bear with me, David - this is all new. Can the share name simply be P: ?
>> We're dealing with a DOS app here - I can't rewrite the code just for
>> this
>> machine. It must see a P: drive.
>>
>> "David Hetherington" <David (E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>> in
>> message news:08115A15-DDE7-4F95-8F3A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>Doug, first enable File and Printer sharing in the Windows Firewall.
>>>Share out the folder c:\para by right clicking on the folder and select
>>>SHARING and Security. Give the share a name, and ensure that you give
>>>the
>>>nessary share and NTFS permissions, ie Share permisisons = Everyone/Full
>>>Control, NTFS permissions = Authenticated Users/Full Control
>>>
>>>Now you should be able to map a drive to \\SystemName\ShareName
>>>
>>>Note: If Security settings are not available your drive might be FAT32
>>>instead of NTFS. To convert your drive to NTFS open a command prompt and
>>>type in
>>>CONVERT c: /FS:NTFS
>>>This will reboot your system and when it comes up again, the drive will
>>>be
>>>NTFS. Be sure to back up any important files before you try this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Doug Kanter" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Platform: XP Pro with SP2
>>>>
>>>>I created a folder off the root directory called c:\para. To satisfy the
>>>>needs of an ancient application, this entire folder needs to be mapped
>>>>as
>>>>P:
>>>>drive. In Explorer, Tools/Map Folder brings up a dialog box, but the
>>>>browse
>>>>button points to network resources, not the hard disk.
>>>>
>>>>Someone suggested manually entering this:
>>>>
>>>>\\MachineName\Para, but that doesn't work. If I try to share the folder
>>>>itself (right click the folder in Explorer), the only option that
>>>>*almost*
>>>>makes sense says that if I want to share the folder, I should drag it to
>>>>Shared Documents (or whatever - I'm not in front of the dialog box at
>>>>the
>>>>moment). This is not a good option, since c:\para contains executables,
>>>>and
>>>>the app will complain if things aren't where they're supposed to be.
>>>>
>>>>So, the short question: How can I get Tools/Map Folder to show me the
>>>>entire
>>>>hard disk?
>>>>
>>>>Note: Security is NOT an issue here. Sharing that folder, or the entire
>>>>hard
>>>>disk is not a problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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