Re: Sharing USB Hard Drive

From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 08/18/04


Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:13:30 -0400

Yeah - don't use removable drives as network shares. You're asking for
trouble.

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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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