Re: Sharing a network drive when not logged in

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This doesn't make much sense in what you're wanting to do but use UNC paths
in your application or process so that mapped drive letters aren't
necessary.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"JWalker" wrote:
| We have "SERVER A" (Windows Server 2003) attached to a SAN and sharing out
| drives.
|
| We have "SERVER B" (Windows Server 2003) that we want to see the shared
| drives from "SERVER A" so that they can be shared to domain users.
| We do not want "SERVER B" to be logged in, as any user, all the time.
|
| Both servers are members of the same domain.
|
| If no one is logged into "SERVER A", "SERVER B" can still see the drives
| when a user is logged into "SERVER B".
| If no one is logged into "SERVER A" or "SERVER B" then a domain user
cannot
| see the shared drives on "SERVER B".
|
| How can we make "SERVER B" see the shared drives from "SERVER A" when no
one
| is logged in to "SERVER B"?
|


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