Re: Mapping a local directory to a drive letter

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From: Alexander Grigoriev (alegr_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:51:42 -0700

look for SUBST command in Help And Support.

"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c925c3dc.0407042315.792a8e4e@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> In XP, I would like to map a local directory to a drive letter. I have
> previously done this using a network drive, but I am concered that
> this will be inefficient as I need to make very heavy use of this
> drive.
>
> I looked at the subst command but I don't like the fact that I have to
> set up a startup menu item (or some registry key) to run it every time
> - I would really like it to be a permanent setting so all users of the
> machine would automatically get it.
>
> Is there some way of directly mounting a directory onto a local drive
> letter so that it becomes pary of the machine's config? - I'm sure I
> remember reading about such a feature once.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Andy

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