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Old December 13th 05, 08:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.shell
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I'm scratching my head a bit here...

As I see it (?) the users on the peer network are all accessing the same
peer server for the data in the folders/drives:

F:\
F:\data
F:\DATA\Acquire Home Services
F:\DATA\Paradox
F:\DATA\WP9 App data"
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\9\Custom WP...

If you create the share(s) for these folders on the peer server the
network users will map these locally to the drive letters as you want
them, (H,J,K...) either with the subst or net use command. The only
reason you would need to subst them on the peer server is if the peer
server is also being used for the same application ie; 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.

John

Stephen Ford wrote:
The NET USE command does the same thing as SUBST



I wonder if it does?

Reading up, it seems to do the same as mapping a drive TO a shared resource,
so it's appears to be a client operation.

I need to create the resource on the "server", then share it, ... and then
map / net use from the client. Or is it OK to use net use on the "server" to
create the resource?

I've noticed that SUBST leaves the resource not shared. So I need to create
the resource and share it as the PC boots.

Stephen