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Ran Out Of Drive Letters.
Name: DANNY Date: September 29, 2004 at 01:16:40 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4
Comment:
We require a win 2000 machine to connect to over 26 Dosclient machine, hence i run out of drive letters. Is there a way around this? Can you create directories and make, mappings to the directories instead of drive letters?
Name: totty (by allan_totty) Date: September 29, 2004 at 01:24:45 Pacific
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You can mount a drive/directory with w2k server but I'm not sure if you can with pro. I'm also not sure if this is restricted to drives in the same machine. Can't you just add them all to your network places ?
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Response Number 2
Name: matty_boy Date: September 30, 2004 at 03:36:11 Pacific
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why not set paths to folders as servers?
If things can go wrong they probably will
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: October 1, 2004 at 10:40:42 Pacific
Reply:
It would be great is dos apps understood UNC which is what is referred to with the path. But odd are they need a specific drive letter.
This is a old problem and there is no solution except to divide the apps between two boxes.
Summary: I need to change the letters of my hard drives in order to get some programs to work correctly. This works for me in NT4 (just use Disk Administrator) but there seems to be no Disk Administrator in W...
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