Shared Folders Help

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graeme g

Hi

I had to recently rebuild one of our servers, the previous person who
installed it setup numerous shares. I have recreated all the shares
except one... It is a share of shares... e.g.

\\SERVER1\SharedFolder1
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder2
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder3
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder4
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder1
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder2
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder3
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder4

I think you get the idea, the purpose of doing this is so that all the
shares on the server could be mapped to a single drive... Now my problem
is how do I make the share of shares??? I've looked on this and that,
played around with this and that but to no avail!!! Any help appreciated...

Thanks

Graeme
 
graeme g said:
Hi

I had to recently rebuild one of our servers, the previous person who
installed it setup numerous shares. I have recreated all the shares
except one... It is a share of shares... e.g.

\\SERVER1\SharedFolder1
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder2
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder3
\\SERVER1\SharedFolder4
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder1
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder2
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder3
\\SERVER1\SharedFolders\SharedFolder4

I think you get the idea, the purpose of doing this is so that all the
shares on the server could be mapped to a single drive... Now my problem
is how do I make the share of shares??? I've looked on this and that,
played around with this and that but to no avail!!! Any help appreciated...

Thanks

Graeme
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Presumably your shares reside in folders like so:
d:\Shares\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\\SharedFolder3
d:\Shares\SharedFolder4
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder3
d:\Dhares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder4

If so then your task is easy:
net share Shares=d:\Shares
 
Pegasus said:
Presumably your shares reside in folders like so:
d:\Shares\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\\SharedFolder3
d:\Shares\SharedFolder4
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder3
d:\Dhares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder4

If so then your task is easy:
net share Shares=d:\Shares
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doh how did i miss that one :-)

thanks for your help

graeme
 
Pegasus said:
Presumably your shares reside in folders like so:
d:\Shares\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\\SharedFolder3
d:\Shares\SharedFolder4
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder1
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder2
d:\Shares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder3
d:\Dhares\SharedFolders\SharedFolder4

If so then your task is easy:
net share Shares=d:\Shares
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oh no its different e.g.

c:\sharedfolder1
c:\sharedfolder2
d:\sharedfolder3
d:\sharedfolder4

and thus i want

\\computer\sharedfolder1
\\computer\sharedfolder2
\\computer\sharedfolder3
\\computer\sharedfolder4
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder1
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder2
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder3
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder4

so the actual shares come from different drives!!!

uuugh

graeme
 
graeme g said:
oh no its different e.g.

c:\sharedfolder1
c:\sharedfolder2
d:\sharedfolder3
d:\sharedfolder4

and thus i want

\\computer\sharedfolder1
\\computer\sharedfolder2
\\computer\sharedfolder3
\\computer\sharedfolder4
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder1
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder2
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder3
\\computer\shares\sharedfolder4

so the actual shares come from different drives!!!

uuugh

graeme
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I don't think you can do it in this case. On the other hand
I wonder about the wisdom of keeping shares on drive C:.
IMHO, the OS and the apps should be on drive C: and
all data on drive D:.
 
Pegasus said:
I don't think you can do it in this case. On the other hand
I wonder about the wisdom of keeping shares on drive C:.
IMHO, the OS and the apps should be on drive C: and
all data on drive D:.
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c: was just an example they are actually on f: and g: two separate scsi
arrays :-)

the share was setup and working before the server crashed... i guess
i'll have to look into it further...

thanks for your help though

graeme
 
graeme g said:
c: was just an example they are actually on f: and g: two separate scsi
arrays :-)

the share was setup and working before the server crashed... i guess
i'll have to look into it further...

thanks for your help though

graeme
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If they are on separate data disks other than the system disk then
you can to mount drive G: in a folder of drive F: like so:

mountvol F:\Shares\DriveG \\?\Volume{9eeb2179-cf82-11d9-8129-00061bdefdfc}\
 
Pegasus said:
If they are on separate data disks other than the system disk then
you can to mount drive G: in a folder of drive F: like so:

mountvol F:\Shares\DriveG \\?\Volume{9eeb2179-cf82-11d9-8129-00061bdefdfc}\
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hi

thanks for your help, i actually found linkd was the program i needed to
use, but the mountvol definitely put me in the right direction.

thanks
Graeme
 
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