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Local HDD Storage on a LAN

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by jerry.patterson

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Do you know of a technology that will allow me to use the unused partions of local computers in a P2P environment.

We have hundreds of PC's and a smaller number of Sun Unix clients. Each of these workstations have at least 10 GB of storage that is not used. Is there a technology available that will allow this storage to be used in a "napster-like" environment? The technology needs to provide the capability of being centrally managed for backup & restore. Anything else would be a plus.

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by jim phelps

If you're running Windows 2000 as your network, all you need to do is to go to a particular PC, go to My Computer, right click on the drive in question, then choose Sharing. You can set all sharing properties there, including who has access to the drive.

Then to access the drive from another computer, you will map a drive as follows:

\\(computer name)\(drive name)

If Joe's computer has the drive to be shared, it will be something like this:

\\Joes_computer\C$

This will allow youto go to Joe's C-drive from your computer, as if it were one of your own drives.

The only problem is that it won't be centrally managed. Also, with less than 26 drive labels, you'll have a hard time doing system wide back ups and restores using this method.

I'm sure that there is a way to do this somewhere in Windows.

by jerry.patterson

Jim,
While you are absolutely correct about sharing out the hard disk drive as a PC resource this will not help me. I have hundreds of computers on a campus wide LAN that would need to be managed, so this method will not work for my situation.

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