mounting a drive?

[Not so quick]

I'm not even sure what it is called. I did do a google
search but am still confused.

I'd like to do the thing that I think used to be called
"substitute" or "assign" in DOS, so that drives appear
as directories or other drives.

Is it reliable? Do the directories appear to other computers
on a small LAN that is connected by a switcher?

Also, would it be a good thing to convert my XP fat drive
that has the XP system on it, to NTFS? I'm thinking that
the redundant allocation tables, or whatever it is that gives
the drives more chance of not being corrupted, would be
a good thing, or am I making things more complicated
than they need to be. My other drives are NTFS because
I do video and the file size limit thing.

Thanks very much : -)

 

[CWatters]

I think you are talking about "Mapped Network Drives" and/or "sharing
drives/folders"

Is it reliable? Do the directories appear to other computers
on a small LAN that is connected by a switcher?

Works (mostly) for me. I have two WinXP machines on a home LAN via a router
(like a switch but with a firewall). I've set up shared folders on both PC
and have mapped these to a drive letter eg The shared folder on PC1 appears
as drive Z: on PC2. This all works fine once you get it set up.

What didn't work so well.... I have an External USB 2.0 hard drive connected
to PC1. I also tried to share that so that it appeared as drive Y: on PC2
but had lots of problems getting it reliable.

Also, would it be a good thing to convert my XP fat drive
that has the XP system on it, to NTFS?

Can't help with that one.

 

[Not so quick]

I think you are talking about "Mapped Network Drives" and/or "sharing
drives/folders"


Works (mostly) for me. I have two WinXP machines on a home LAN via a router
(like a switch but with a firewall). I've set up shared folders on both PC
and have mapped these to a drive letter eg The shared folder on PC1 appears
as drive Z: on PC2. This all works fine once you get it set up.

What didn't work so well.... I have an External USB 2.0 hard drive connected
to PC1. I also tried to share that so that it appeared as drive Y: on PC2
but had lots of problems getting it reliable.


Can't help with that one.

Thanks, but I've got the mapping down, well pretty ok,
but mounting a drive is different. If you mount it, it has
a path name instead of a drive letter, so you could have
a drive with a folder that accesses another drive. You
can even remove the drive letter and have a bunch of
them, more than the 26 letter limitation for the number of
letters in the alphabet.
Thanks again for responding
: -)

 

[Sarge]

I'd like to do the thing that I think used to be called
"substitute" or "assign" in DOS, so that drives appear
as directories or other drives.

Use the subst command: http://tinyurl.com/utxz

 

[Alex Nichol]

Also, would it be a good thing to convert my XP fat drive
that has the XP system on it, to NTFS? I'm thinking that
the redundant allocation tables, or whatever it is that gives
the drives more chance of not being corrupted, would be
a good thing, or am I making things more complicated
than they need to be. My other drives are NTFS because
I do video and the file size limit thing.

See my comments at www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm

 

[Not so quick]

See my comments at www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm

Great resource.