Unifying drive designations

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Norman Risch

Does a Windows XP server in a peer-to-peer network require the use of
SUBST.EXE to "map" to one of its own folders, matching the mapping from
another computer in a network?

If not, does one use the same setup process as mapping from another
computer?
 
Norman said:
Does a Windows XP server in a peer-to-peer network require the use of
SUBST.EXE to "map" to one of its own folders, matching the mapping
from another computer in a network?

If not, does one use the same setup process as mapping from another
computer?
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Windows will let you map a network share that exists on the same computer no
problem.
 
Robert said:
Windows will let you map a network share that exists on the same computer no
problem.
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Thanks for your response.

I thought so, but I've run into a problem in which the shared folder is
being seen as "Read Only" (on the host machine mapped drive itself) even
though it was previously designated as to be "Shared."

I also noticed that there was a distinction between setting up nested
folders on the C-Drive of the server, and finding that each folder so
nested had to be individually noted as to be shared. Is this a
particular quirk?

Any thoughts on this? Is there a tech note on this particular subject,
as distinguished from other normal networking and mapping issues?
 
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