Mounting a network share as a folder, not as a drive

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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:\. Help?
 
Just make a shortcut to the folder and name it anything that you like.
 
Rob Elder said:
Just make a shortcut to the folder and name it anything that you like.
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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.

Your suggestion, I don't see how that will work with my situation...
 
To my knowlege you cannot mount a share. Why not place the shortcut in the
My Documents folder?
 
Rob Elder said:
To my knowlege you cannot mount a share. Why not place the shortcut in the
My Documents folder?
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Won't work because the whole point of doing it is to be able to increase the
storage space of the C:\documents\ folder as need arises. The documents
folder will house about 20 subfolders. Should it get full I will want to
move some of the data to a new server, and mount it as
C:\documents\subfolderX\.
 
What you're trying to do isn't possible natively. Might just consider
installing a new drive and mounting that.
 
Rob Elder said:
What you're trying to do isn't possible natively. Might just consider
installing a new drive and mounting that.
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An alternative I've thought about was this:

Have a Linux server A, which mounts /home/b/ from Linux server B to A's
/home/ direcory, /home/c/ from Linux server C to A's /home/ direcory,
/home/d/from Linux server D to A's /home/ direcory, etc. using NFS. Since
Linux allows mounting network shares as directories it will be perfect.

Then, I can just mount A's /home/ directory onto Windows Server W's E:\
drive. Now whenever I wanted to split out more folders (due to lack of disk
space) I can just add more Linux servers and reconfigure the shares. The
Windows W machine never needs to know a thing about it.

Only drawback here is that when W needs to access files from C, for example,
the data would need to go from C to A to W. This is an extra trip
obviously.
 
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