Frank,

1. 'Map network drive' and 'net use' can not handle FTP syntax, period.

If someone thinks differently, then please show *real* *working*
examples with *real* FTP servers and port numbers, i.e. something like:

I'm surprised that you even considered testing it. FTP is not, and has
never been, a way to access a drive.

In the same way "net" (use) has never been something to support internet
protocols.

Also, FTP is a *file transfer* (as in: the whole thing) protocol, not ment
to be used to do random reads and writes to a file. DIR ? Yes. COPY ?
yes. DEL ? yes. ATTRIB ? Nope, only Linux-style permissions are
supported. Anything else ? Not so much. As such it cannot even be used
to do Arlens "every window command" with it.

And that is where his story ends.



Unless he's willing to check out stuff like this he

https://www.ferrobackup.com/map-ftp-as-disk.html

.... Which he isn't (which is a good, but limiting choice).

Than again, as long as you use third-party software (or write it yourself!)
you can get (most) everything to work - even (full, raw) disk access over
morse. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser