Mounting a Network Share as a subfolder, not as a drive letter

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From: Jibba Jabba (trutran_at_mailexcite.com)
Date: 02/08/04


Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:38:17 GMT

Is it possible to mount a network shared resource as a folder and not as a
drive? Suppose there was a network share on computer A named "documents". I
want to mount it on computer B as C:\documents, and not as E:\.

It's been suggested that I mount it as a drive letter and just create a
shortcut called C:\documents, which points to the shared drive. However
that won't work for me.

The problem is, I'm looking to add more space to the C:\documents\ as the
need arises. With local hard drives you can mount a drive in a folder. I'm
looking to do the same with a network share.

With Linux, this is easily done, but with Windows I've not found a solution
yet. Help?



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