Re: Difference between mapped drive and subst?

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Pavel A. wrote:

Sorry... of course there will be some difference in the links.
But I wonder how this can change the behavior?

It shouldn't. The real job is done by the same driver in both cases. Of
course a faulty 3rd party filter may screw up things.

My customers have random file open failures when they
use subst'ed letters - but I am not sure whether this can be
the reason.

What is the failure code?

I can't really see failure codes :(
They have scripts - perl, jscript and whatever.

Why cannot they use UNC paths? They should work fine from any scripting
language.

They say that, when they use substed letters the scripts fail more
often and in more funny manner. Clients are XP SP2 and servers are win2003
with DFS. Also we have
Mcafee antivirus and other troublesome s/w, but removing it is not
possible.

I would suggest at least temporarily uninstalling (not just disabling) any
AV or other software that has filter drivers on the file I/O. If this fixes
the problem the question should go to McWhatever.


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