Re: Shared folders not seen
From: Rob Dawson (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:19:07 -0800
Windows 98 is a _really_ poor network client. For example,
if you set a users profile to map a drive letter to
d:\users\%username%, on a WinNT/2K/XP box it will map to
the root of that particular users folder, i.e. %username%.
Win98 instead maps to the root of the d:\users folder. If
you want to map to the root of the particular users folder
you would have to share the folder and do it that way.
Network Neighborhood under 98 is terrible as well. Half of
your shares, including printers will show and the others
will not, leaving you to specify the UNC to map to them.
>-----Original Message-----
>When I access our server (\\servername), am I accessing
>the computer or the c: drive?
>
>Are all the folders I see on \\servername shares?
>
>Where should I put windows 98 client user folders? Does
>this mean that the folder has to be on the c: drive, and
>not in a subfolder?
>
>What I want to do is put a folder in the d: drive called
>user folders, and put user folders in them.
>
>Is the fact that I have shared the d: drive so I can see
>it (calling it data) making it impossible to share
folders
>in it?
>
>Finally, is there a way to see the d: drive without using
>sharing?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Windows 98 cannot map to a subfolder in a share. That
>capability started
>>with Windows 2000.
>>
>>Network Neighborhood is sometimes flaky and connectivity
>has no dependency
>>on it.
>>You can a UNC path from the run command to find shares.
>> \\server\sharename
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>"Mike DeLong" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote
>in message
>>news:1556f01c415f8$f8825420$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>>I have a d: drive partition with folders I want to
share.
>>> I made a folder called cw server, set permissions
>>> to "everyone," and all my clients can see it. I then
>>> created another folder called shared files, with the
>exact
>>> same permissions. Using network neighborhood, I can
see
>>> both folders from the sbs2003 server. Going to a win98
>>> client, though, I can only see the "cw server" folder,
>and
>>> not the "shared files" folder.
>>>
>>> Any idea why this is happening?
>>>
>>> Related question: why can I map some drives on the
win98
>>> maching and not others? I right-click on some folders,
>>> and "map network drive" appears. I drill down a little
>>> into the file structure, right-click on a folder, and
no
>>> mapping option appears.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>
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