Universal Naming Convention- WinXP

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Hi - If possible, I want to duplicate the drive set up from work on my home
WinXPpro PC.
want to do this to test a split access 2K DB before bringing it to the
office.
My PC has several drives so i thought of renaming one of the drives(probably
a removable disk) currently named F:

So , is there a way to rename a drive in WinXPpro using UNC rather than the
drive letter?
or to duplicate the path?
i.e. i want to rename F: to \\XyXy\rrr$\ZZZ
where XYXY is the server at work
rrr$ Hidden share drive
ZZZ folder

thanks for any advice
 
You cannot do exactly as you say - if you could, how would your computer know
whether you wanted to access your removable drive (named \\XyXy\rrr$\ZZZ), or
the directory ZZZ in the share rrr$ on the computer named XyXy (it will
still try, even if you aren't connected to it via a network)?

You CAN create a share rrr$ on your own machine, and put a directory named ZZZ
in the drive/folder that the rrr$ share points to - you would then access this
as \\VwVw\rrr$\ZZZ, where VwVw is the name of your computer, not the server at
work.

You may even be able to temporarily give your computer the same name, or set
up an alias, so that it responds to the name of the server at work - of
course, this could cause problems if you are connected to that server via the
network, as there would then be duplicate names.
(Look into the NET NAME command, as well as perhaps looking up HOSTS and
LMHOSTS in help).

|Hi - If possible, I want to duplicate the drive set up from work on my home
|WinXPpro PC.
|want to do this to test a split access 2K DB before bringing it to the
|office.
|My PC has several drives so i thought of renaming one of the drives(probably
|a removable disk) currently named F:
|
|So , is there a way to rename a drive in WinXPpro using UNC rather than the
|drive letter?
|or to duplicate the path?
|i.e. i want to rename F: to \\XyXy\rrr$\ZZZ
|where XYXY is the server at work
|rrr$ Hidden share drive
|ZZZ folder
|
|thanks for any advice
|
|
 
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