mounting without a drive letter

[Tom Ramsdell]

Hello,

I have a need for more mounts than there exists drive letters. The network
provider for nfs will not accept WNetAddConnectionX() without a drive
letter. The mount utility is calling this API as well and simply will not
work without a drive letter being specified.

An interesting thing is that after a mount-umount sequence (where the drive
letter is no longer mapped) access to files by UNC continues to "work",
presumably using the cached credentials.

As that's not really an industrial strength approach, I'm hoping that there
is a legitimate way to mount without a drive letter.

Thanks for any suggestion.

Tom

[Ashish]

There is no cached credentials in NFS. Every time an access is made,
the UID and GID is sent to the server which is then evaluated by the
server to see it is supposed to have access to the folder and files
there.

Mounting just gives you a drive letter to associate with the NFS share
and UNC is accessing the same thing without a drive letter. They are
alike in every other aspect.

If you are on Vista/Windows 7, you can add a Network location to you
system which you can use. It will appear on your Open dialog boxes
under Computer on the same level as your drive letters.

- Ashish