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Remote Disk vs Network Drive
Name: codeworm Date: May 14, 2003 at 04:32:11 Pacific OS: WindowsNT 4.0 CPU/Ram: Compaq 256K
Comment:
Mathew Stevens asked a question on November 19th about this. http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/20175.html
It didn't get a satisfactory answer. Could someone please explain this distinction?
Name: wanderer Date: May 14, 2003 at 11:34:15 Pacific
Reply:
a remote disk is one you, as administrator, can manage on another W2K computer. A network drive is a connection to a share on another computer.
otherwise not sure why its reported that a network share becomes listed as a remote disk.
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Response Number 2
Name: QBasic Date: May 14, 2003 at 17:35:05 Pacific
Reply:
I tried to answer the other post, but it had expired and allowed no further input. I don't understand the logic behind that. People using GOOGLE, etc. can find old posts when doing research and would possibly provide more data.
But anyway, the following is a detailed treatment of the "remote disk" phenomenon.
Summary: Hi We have an NT server 4 that I have shared hidden folders ,on the client Windows 98 machine, it's login running a login script that maps the shared folder as a drive. For some reasons all the netwo...
Summary: I just set up a new job in Task scheduler that runs a batchfile which Maps a nework drive and copys data from the server to the mapped drive. The job worked the first time, but has failed mapping the ...
Summary: I just set up a new job in Task scheduler that runs a batchfile which Maps a nework drive and copys data from the server to the mapped drive. The job worked the first time, but has failed mapping the ...
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