Mapping the C drive

[Laurel]

I would like to assign the location of files in an Application I have to a
mapped drive so that it the client's location M, say could be mapped to
their network location, but on my own computer, it could be mapped to the C
drive. Is this possible? I can't just put C: in the location in the "Map
Network Drive" window. It won't take it.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Gordon" <[email protected]>

| Laurel wrote:
||
| that's because it's not a networked drive in the first place. How can you
| "map" a drive that's local to you?

You can map a local drive w/o sharing it. To do so you use the SUBST.EXE command to map a
drive letter to a folder/subfolder of any local disk.

In a Command Prompt execute the following for its command syntax;
subst /?

 

[Bob I]

You already have C: in use. Pick a differnt letter.

 

[David H. Lipman]

| OOOOH! Command line in "Windows"!!!!!!

Why not ?

There are NUMEROUS Win32 command line utilities to use. Just because you are using a GUI
based OS does not mean the use of command line utilities is dead.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

OOOOH! Command line in "Windows"!!!!!!

Gawd, I'd certainly hope so. There's a CLI in Mac OSX, you know. Not
everything needs a pretty GUI - it's a lot more efficient to do many tasks
via command line.

 

[Gordon]

I would like to assign the location of files in an Application I have to a
mapped drive so that it the client's location M, say could be mapped to
their network location, but on my own computer, it could be mapped to the
C
drive. Is this possible? I can't just put C: in the location in the "Map
Network Drive" window. It won't take it.

that's because it's not a networked drive in the first place. How can you
"map" a drive that's local to you?

 

[Gordon]

From: "Gordon" <[email protected]>

| Laurel wrote:
|
|
| that's because it's not a networked drive in the first place. How can
| you "map" a drive that's local to you?

You can map a local drive w/o sharing it. To do so you use the SUBST.EXE
command to map a drive letter to a folder/subfolder of any local disk.

In a Command Prompt execute the following for its command syntax;
subst /?

OOOOH! Command line in "Windows"!!!!!!