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  • November 7, 2011 at 12:17 am #2171975

    How to map or bind a network drive as a local folder?

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    by jayjay10 · about 11 years, 4 months ago

    I am using a streamer that is build in to the cable company box.
    There is a software running on my PC that allows me to share folders to that streamer.
    Problem is that it the software does not support sharing network drive.
    Of course all my movies and pictures are on a network drive.
    Is there any way to fool the software?
    I am running windows XP and windows 7.

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    • November 7, 2011 at 12:17 am #2897645

      Clarifications

      by jayjay10 · about 11 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to How to map or bind a network drive as a local folder?

      Clarifications

      • November 7, 2011 at 11:14 am #2897626

        Request for Clarification

        by pongidae · about 11 years, 4 months ago

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        Do you have the network drive mapped to your local pc? It will require a double hop from the streamer but the folders should then be available through the pc rather than directly from the network drive.
        – Or –
        Does the streamer recognize dlna and is your network drive dlna compatible? If so it’s just a matter of turning on the service and then pointing the streamer at it.

    • November 7, 2011 at 7:36 am #2897634

      Interesting…

      by cmiller5400 · about 11 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to How to map or bind a network drive as a local folder?

      No native way that I know of. There may be some third-party software to accomplish this, but I don’t know of any windows command to accomplish this.

      EDIT: Are you saying that even though you have a mapped network drive (as a letter), the streaming software on your PC will not recognize it?

    • November 7, 2011 at 1:01 pm #2897614

      use the DOS command NET USE

      by icemandk · about 11 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to How to map or bind a network drive as a local folder?

      If the software for the streamer is running on your PC, then you can open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and type net use x: \\server\share, the mapping will exist also after closing the command prompt.

      This will give you a normal drive mapping to your share. If you want to remove it again, then use: net use x: /delete

    • November 7, 2011 at 3:25 pm #2897603

      Make a hard link

      by spitfire_sysop · about 11 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to How to map or bind a network drive as a local folder?

      You would need to make a new empty folder and then hard link it to the network share. This way the contents of this empty folder appears to contain the files from your mapped network drive. This is just smoke and mirrors.

      If you have Win7 you can use “mklink”:
      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(WS.10).aspx

      If you have XP then you need to get a special program to perform this feat of computing wizardry:
      http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml

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