Re: [cobalt-developers] Samba Directory Mapping?

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

on 9/12/00 9:11 AM, Kevin Thomson at webservices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> By this I mean, going through a windows machine to the qube3/qube2 it is
> possible to "map directory" to a drive letter on that machine, ie S:/ . So
> the user sees the home directory on the qube as S:/ under My computer (for
> win9x systems).  But this same procedure dosen't work when right clicking
> something like //server/home/exampledir/ and trying to map the "exampledir"
> Directory to a drive letter.

Have you tried this on a real Windows server?

I was under the impression that you could only map to actual share points
... not directories within share points.

If you really needed to map a particular subdirectory, then add a section to
smb.conf to make that subdirectory a share point.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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