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Old December 15th 05, 04:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.shell
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Stephen Ford wrote:

; as a workstation also, and because it can't map the shares to itself.
You cannot share subst drives, so the other users will have to map to the
folder shares.



...yes, this is what I beginning to wonder.


That's how it is, subst drives cannot be shared. You can use it to
bring the peer server to the same drive arrangement but the other will
have to map form their machines to the shares. You know that you could
also stick the map batch commands in the autoexec.bat file also. I
don't like doing it that way but many do it that way.

I notice on my XP machine, there is a NET SHARE command. It's starting to
look as though I should have built the XP machine to be the "server".


Yes, the net share command is only available to NT systems. Unless the
peer server needs to run incompatible DOS programs I would say that
would be a better way to have XP as the peer server, there are many
advantages to using an NT system as the peer server, more robust and
secure for one thing. Regardless, I stand to be corrected but even then
I don't beleve that Windows XP can share subst drives. I think NT4
might (?) have been able to do that but if I remember correctly that was
removed on Windows 2000 and later, there were just too many bugs with that.

John