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by aimhighlearning1

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I have 5 computers on a Peer to Peer network but only the "server" and 1 other computer can access a particular program on a dedicated drive i.e. "D"

Computer 1 is
D on "Server", mapped on F Drive and the D drive is a second Hard Disk.

Computer 2 is
D on "Server", mapped on G drive and the D drive is the partition of the Hard Drive on C called Disk 1 part 02 on D.

Computer 3 is
D on "Server" mapped on Drive E and the D drive is the CD player.

Can anyone tell me how to get this particular program on the "server's" drive "D" to be accessed by all the computers and how can I change the drive letters on the 3 computers not accessing the program to Drive "D" by re-mapping them to D.
Thanks.

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by don christner

Pick a drive letter that is out of the way, for example, I use S: to map to our server. Just right-click on Network Neighborhood and select Map Network Drive. Then select S: and map to the server's D:.

Don

by pesk, mbcs, mcse, mcitp, sts

Firstly and rather unfortunately, from what you have described, all the three computer are using the 'D' drive for other legitimate functions. When a HDD or CDROm or FDD is introduced into a PC the next letter available letter after the main DD is assigned to this new drive. Where you already have a 'C' drive, the next available drive *WILL* be the 'D' drive. If this drive is connected to the primary or secondary IDE port, it *WILL* get the 'next current letter' assignment. The only way to freeup the 'D' letter assignment is either by using Disk Management in Win2K/XP or a third-party program such as Partition Magic.

Second. In theory, a PC should be able to 'share' resources to as many PC as request that share(maybe upto about 10,000in Win9x and more than 1 mill. in Win2K/XP). If this is not the case, then the problem may lie in the fact that Win9x computers normally allow, by default, only 1 share at a time (Don't quote me on this.) This can be changed by increasing the numberof allowable shares in the resources' properties dialog box.

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