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December 8, 2000 at 3:55 am #2093232
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
Lockedby rward72 · about 22 years, 2 months ago
I would like to know if it is possible to map/assign a drive letter to a dir/folder on the ‘C’ drive.
ie. map/assign drive letter ‘M’ to ‘c:\temp’
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December 8, 2000 at 4:08 am #3869122
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by goodtruck · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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It is not possible.
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January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832731
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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December 8, 2000 at 4:40 am #3869109
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by masked man · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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sure it’s possible
“subst M: c:\temp”
without the quotes
works under DOS WINDOWS 9x, NT, 2000-
December 8, 2000 at 4:42 am #3869108
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by masked man · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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needs to be done from the command prompt or added to autoexec.bat to map it at boot time
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January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832732
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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December 8, 2000 at 2:32 pm #3868874
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by pvp · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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Use of subst under Win 9x/NT/2K is a very bad idea!
I’d do it if I were VERY desperate to continue using older, irreplaceable software, but it’s not recommended procedure.
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January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832733
Map a drive letter to local dir/folder.
by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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December 10, 2000 at 5:08 am #3869301
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by jdfcomputer · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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This is possible. You will need to install file and printer sharing. Right click on the folder you want to share. Then go into network neighboorhood and map the shared folderto the drive letter you want.
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January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832734
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by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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December 11, 2000 at 6:09 am #3870547
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by tommugg · about 22 years, 2 months ago
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Answers #2 and #3 are right. #4 is kinda right, but that is to map a new drive to an entire “real” drive, but not just a folder. I used this same scenario when networking a old DOS package, the ini files needed a drive letter installed, so one machine in the LAN mapped to M: and the machine “M:” was on, was done with a subst m: c: in the autoexec.bat file. Therefore all ini files were written with a M: in them and thus both machines could use the program, but not simultaneously. But #3 is kindaright, there isn’t much use for that anymore.
Good luck!!!
-tom--
January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832735
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by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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January 8, 2001 at 1:06 am #3832730
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by rward72 · about 22 years, 1 month ago
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