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Tricking Windows 98 into mapping a local folder as a network drive?

#1 User is offline   shassouneh 

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Posted 06 November 2004 - 01:55 AM

Hi all,
The following WILL sound silly, but it has an advantage to it, so kindly bear with me.

I have a Windows 98 machine called Main, with a share on it simply called "shared".

Whenever I chose to map \\Main\shared as a network drive (N: to be exact) on a different machine, it works like a charm. But If I try to do this ON the "Main" machine (the Windows 98 machine), I get an error (see below).

The purpose of this is I would like Anyone on ANY machine in a locla network to assume N: points to \\Main\shared regardless of which machine they are using. This has the obvious advantage for the less tech-savvy since nothing changes as far as how they think of drives. The following image is a screen shot of the message I get when i try to map \\Main\shared as N: on "Main".

Is there a way around this?

Thanx for taking the time to read this


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Posted 07 November 2004 - 02:21 PM


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