Mapping network drive to local folder?

Clarifications

The only way I can think to do exactly what you're asking is by using DFS, but both nodes have to be servers I think.

You can't reconfig the local app to look at a different drive letter for the data if you map a drive to the network share?

You can map a local folder to a virtual drive letter, thus by ?switching�? drives you are simply redirected to that folder.

In order to map a local folder to a drive letter follow these steps:

* Go To Start->Run, type Cmd and press Enter.
* Now type the following command in the command prompt: subst drive: path_to_folder and Enter.

For example lets say we want to map the My Documents folder to drive letter M: so we type: subst M: C:\?Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents?

Now every time you?ll enter M: you will be redirected to the My Documents folder. Also this new virtual drive will show in Windows File Explorer.

To delete a mapping you simply type SUBST drive1: /D ? so in our example, if we want to delete the mapping of M: to My Documents we simply type SUBST M: /D.

Typing SUBST without any parameters will display all the mappings.