Re: Sharing USB Hard Drive

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From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 08/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:26:04 -0400

Still potentially bad news. If you value your data, don't. Just don't.

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"Ron Hinds" <__NoSpam@__NoSpamramac.com> wrote in message 
news:OO93WcjhEHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> What about using the "Mount in this NTFS folder" option? And sharing that
> folder? Will that work?
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
> news:%23V0D3gWhEHA.904@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Yeah - don't use removable drives as network shares.  You're asking for
>> trouble.
>>
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>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x]  rgharper@email.com
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>>
>> "Ron Hinds" <__NoSpam@__NoSpamramac.com> wrote in message
>> news:ub9uy2UhEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> > Repost: Thought I had this problem solved but it seems to be
>> > intermittient.
>> > I need it to work consistently!
>> >
>> > I want to use external USB drives to backup a SQL Server database to,
> then
>> > disconnect the drive for an offsite backup. The USB drives will be
>> > connected
>> > to the workstations of three users; thus each will have the capability
> of
>> > doing the offsite backup. The drives need to be shared in order for SQL
>> > Server to backup to them. Here's my problem: every time I reconnect the
>> > drive, all of the sharing info that existed before it was disconnected
> is
>> > lost. Any suggestions? TIA!
>>
>>
>
> 


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