Networked Drives Seen as Local Drives to the OS?

[josepk]

Hi All,

I have a backup program for my Windows XP computer that only backs up
local drives. However, I recently installed a small NAS device
attached to my network (via Ethernet) and this NAS device is mapped to
my computer as a mapped, networked drive - the backup program will not
recognize this mapped drive.

Is there any setting/registry entry I can change to allow Windows XP to
see my networked drive as local drive? That is, even though a drive is
networked it is reported back by the OS as a locally attached drive?

Thanks!

Joe

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Is this NAS device connected to a "Drive" letter? I have been mapping
other PCs hard drives and the standard Windows Backup system usually sees
them as "local".

 

[josepk]

Yes, the NAS backup is assigned a drive letter. The backup software I
use, however, does not recognize anything but local drives (the backup
software is Connected Online backup).

Somehow I need to get the OS to report back that the mapped networked
drive is just a lowly local disk.

Thoughts?

Joe