Mapping folders and drives to other folders in XP

[Jonathan E. \(NZ\)]

Hi there,
I had to uninstall and reinstall IIS.
I realised afterward that as far as I recall I used to "map" a folder on
another partition into the C:\inetpub folder as wwwroot (ie.
c:\inetpub\wwwroot was infact "pointing" or mapping to f:\webroot)

I recall setting this up yet I now don't know how I did it.
I am aware that I can simply tell IIS to set the HOME directory of the root
web to this other directory... but for some good reason at the time I went
about it this other way... I forget why just now but would still like to
know how to map folders in this way.

Am I dreaming or is this possible and how?
I could not find anything in XP help discussing this.


Thanks,

Jonathan

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jonathan,

Perhaps you were using a mounted drive for this folder?

HOW TO: Create and Use NTFS Mounted Drives in Windows XP [Q307889]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307889

I could see where it would have some advantages. No drive name length limit,
volume is not limited by the host drive (say if C:\Inetpub has only 500MB
available space, by mounting it to a 20GB partition, it no longer has that
limit).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone