Network problem

[Zvonko]

Hello!

I'm currently developing one network related program that uses network drives. But at home I don't have network. Is there any way to simulate network drives?

Zvonko

[PaulLewis]

I still won't know the answer, but I am sure potential help is just around the corner if you advise these things.

At a guess, if you are using WindowsNT or maybe even any Windows OS, you ought to be able to set up Shared mount points on your local disks and in your code, access them via the "network" name rather than the real path. In fact, if you use UNC, perhaps it won't even matter if you are using a Microsoft network or Novell network...

Regards
Paul

[Zvonko]

I'm using Win2k and MS network.
Does this help?

[PaulLewis]

I am sure someone who has already done this before might be able to help you.

I am sure that the WIndows OS will treat a local share point the same as a network share point. The only possible difference I thin would be that you are less likely to fail to connect to a local share point because your login credentials are more certain (from your server's point of view).

If I'm not right in thinking that Windows treats local shares the same as network shares then I guess I would be stuck. It just doesn't make sense to me to treat them any different.

Sorry I can't give you specifics but if you try to do it, what happens? Have to set up a share point on your win2k machine and tried to access it "as if it were a network resource"?

Regards
Paul Lewis

[nota141]

i have had the same problem and i found a program which was part of dos which is still in the windows/command dir called subst.exe which will make a local directory have it's own drive letter.

[Zvonko]

Thanks