Neat trick to view your network shares
Gregory Phillips
NT 4.0 does not seem to make it easy to see (at a glance) what you
have shared over the network.
I was playing around with the command line switches Explorer.exe
accepts and noticed you can give it a computer name instead of
a directory. If you create a shortcut to explorer with your own computer's
name as the target then you can see exactly what is shared to the network.
This includes drives, directories (folders) and printers.
For example if your computer is named BILL create a new shortcut icon with
the command line:
%winnt%EXPLORER.EXE /e,/root,\\BILL
Then open the new icons properties and clear the "start in" directory for
the shortcut (doesn't work otherwise). It opens a little slower than the
normal shortcut to explorer.exe but is interesting.
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Gregory Phillips Seattle, Washington, USA gr...@wolfenet.com
Rick Lobrecht
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:34:19 GMT, gr...@wolfenet.com (Gregory Phillips)
wrote:
>NT 4.0 does not seem to make it easy to see (at a glance) what you
>have shared over the network.
Sure it does. There's a share button in Server MAnager (or the Server
Control Panel in WS) that shows you all the shares you have, and how
many current connections.
Rick Lobrecht
rud...@neosoft.com