Mounting a Network Share as a subfolder, not as a drive letter

[Jibba Jabba]

Is it possible to mount a network shared resource as a folder and not as a
drive? Suppose there was a network share on computer A named "documents". I
want to mount it on computer B as C:\documents, and not as E:\.

It's been suggested that I mount it as a drive letter and just create a
shortcut called C:\documents, which points to the shared drive. However
that won't work for me.

The problem is, I'm looking to add more space to the C:\documents\ as the
need arises. With local hard drives you can mount a drive in a folder. I'm
looking to do the same with a network share.

With Linux, this is easily done, but with Windows I've not found a solution
yet. Help?

 

[Guest]

What you could do is create a shortcut to the share in a folder. Take these instructions below to see what I mean. This way, you do NOT have to have a mapped network drive You stated C:\Documents, so I will do it the sam

Check what pc the share is on and exactly what the share is called. You need to know the UNC pat
Go to the C:\ and right click and scroll to New and select Shortcu
In the Shortcut Location, type the UNC. For example, if the Share was called Documents on SERVER, the UNC would be \\SERVER\Shar
Click next and it will ask you what you want to call it
The icon will appear as the folder (as it is pointing to a folder) but with the shortcut icon in the corner

I cant think of another way you can do this.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, where I said
For example, if the Share was called Documents on SERVER, the UNC would be \\SERVER\Shar

it should read
For example, if the Share was called Documents on SERVER, the UNC would be \\SERVER\Documents

 

[Jibba Jabba]

What you could do is create a shortcut to the share in a folder. Take

these instructions below to see what I mean. This way, you do NOT have to
have a mapped network drive You stated C:\Documents, so I will do it the
same

Check what pc the share is on and exactly what the share is called. You need to know the UNC path
Go to the C:\ and right click and scroll to New and select Shortcut
In the Shortcut Location, type the UNC. For example, if the Share was

called Documents on SERVER, the UNC would be \\SERVER\Share

Click next and it will ask you what you want to call it.
The icon will appear as the folder (as it is pointing to a folder) but

with the shortcut icon in the corner.

I cant think of another way you can do this.

Thanks for the suggestion, but how will that work if I needed to mount
C:\Documents\G\ to server G, C:\Documents\H\ to server G also?

 

[Guest]

To the same share or what? All you would have to do is create another shortcut and call it something different. There is no "1 pc connection to share" limit