gregory malsack
April 24th 03, 11:47 PM
instead of mapping the t: drive to a folder on your
laptop's hard drive, let the remote computer use the t:
drive as a mapped drive to the folder on your laptop, and
use a substituted drive on your laptop. that way it will
always be there. add this line to a dos batch file on your
laptop somewhere.
subst t: c:\folder to use
call it something like mapdrv.bat, then add it to your
startup folder. This way everytime you start your computer
it will map t: to c:\folderxxx using the subst command
instead of the network which might not be loaded because
you are out of the office.
I know this works on all versions of windows up until
2000. I don't have an xp machine here right now to test
this but it should work.
>-----Original Message-----
>A few of the applications I use in my small home network
require that I use
>mapped drives.
>
>However, when I'm using my laptop disconnected from the
network I would
>still like to access the LOCAL mapped drives. However,
this does not seem
>possible.
>
>Is it possible to fool XP into thinking its on a network
to give me access
>to the mapped drives. After all, they are only folders on
my C drive.
>
>For example local folder C:\Shared\Artwork is mapped as
drive T:\ on both my
>laptop and my desktop machine. But when I take my
computer out with me I
>cant access T:\
>
>Help!
>
>
>.
>
laptop's hard drive, let the remote computer use the t:
drive as a mapped drive to the folder on your laptop, and
use a substituted drive on your laptop. that way it will
always be there. add this line to a dos batch file on your
laptop somewhere.
subst t: c:\folder to use
call it something like mapdrv.bat, then add it to your
startup folder. This way everytime you start your computer
it will map t: to c:\folderxxx using the subst command
instead of the network which might not be loaded because
you are out of the office.
I know this works on all versions of windows up until
2000. I don't have an xp machine here right now to test
this but it should work.
>-----Original Message-----
>A few of the applications I use in my small home network
require that I use
>mapped drives.
>
>However, when I'm using my laptop disconnected from the
network I would
>still like to access the LOCAL mapped drives. However,
this does not seem
>possible.
>
>Is it possible to fool XP into thinking its on a network
to give me access
>to the mapped drives. After all, they are only folders on
my C drive.
>
>For example local folder C:\Shared\Artwork is mapped as
drive T:\ on both my
>laptop and my desktop machine. But when I take my
computer out with me I
>cant access T:\
>
>Help!
>
>
>.
>