Shared drive vs a share

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There appears to be some difference in a shared drive vs a share. I know when
I run a java program installed on a share, it gives me security errors, but
when I run the
Program installed on a shared drive it works fine.

Shared drive appears as a local drive on my desktop. However a share does
not. My data center people set shared drive. Share was set by me where I went
to server and allowed a folder to be shared by my LAN login.

I will like to know how to setup a shared drive instead of share.


Thanks.
 
They are one and the same. Also look at mountvol and subst commands.

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| There appears to be some difference in a shared drive vs a share. I know
when
| I run a java program installed on a share, it gives me security errors,
but
| when I run the
| Program installed on a shared drive it works fine.
|
| Shared drive appears as a local drive on my desktop. However a share does
| not. My data center people set shared drive. Share was set by me where I
went
| to server and allowed a folder to be shared by my LAN login.
|
| I will like to know how to setup a shared drive instead of share.
|
|
| Thanks.
|
 
You can connect to a "share" via drive mapping (creates a drive on your
local machine for the share) or you can connect directly using the UNC (i.e.
\\hostname\sharename).

I suspect your differences are seen between these two methods.

Try mapping the share to a drive letter (i.e. Explorer | Tools | Map Network
Drive | \\hostname\sharename.

-Frank
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but are you referring to the following...

Share - A share located on another computer using a UNC path i.e.
"\\servername\share"

Shared Drive - A share located on another computer BUT has a drive
mapping to your local computer i.e. "share on 'servername\share' (X:)"

If this is the case then the Shared Drive is actually a network share
that has been MAPPED on your local workstation. You can do this by
right clicking My Computer and selecting 'Map Network Drive', select
the letter you wish to map the share to and enter the full share path
in the box underneath. Click Apply, OK and go have a look in My
Computer to see if the drive is present.

Mr C.

Prem Mehrotra was thinking very hard :
 
Thanks to all of you for quick responses. I think that is the difference and
in one case a drive is mapped and in another case UNC is used for accessing
the folder.
 
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