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How far down can you map a share?

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by j.monro

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I want to map a drive letter to "\\server1\departments\accounting".
I can map to "departments" easily enough, but can't seem to map the "accounting" part of the path, even though it is shared as "accounting".

Any ideas, or am I just stuck at level one?

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by sgt_shultz

the 'level' shouldn't matter... you are not restricted just to one level. you can map to any share, as far as i know. maybe the problem is the the share name?...change it if you can to something 8 or less characters and no spaces or underscores or anything non-alpha. just for testing? like accnting. and check out the security settings on the share...tell us more about what is happening. you just can't see the share? or the map command fails? does it give an error (share not found?).

by ann777

"accounting" may be an alias for a share... in which case, you'd need to find what the real share name is.

Within some of the older OSes, there's a limit to \\computername\sharename (WinNT) -- but there's ways around that limit. Batches and scripts come to mind.

by timwalsh

The syntax for mapping a share is \\servername\sharename. There are no intermediate levels. All shares exist at the root level of the server. Therefore, in your case, you should really be mapping \\servername\Accounting.

Hope this helps.

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