23 drive letter maximum
Preston Tucker
the tech guy at a small school in Oakland, CA.
Our students do alot of their research on CD-ROMS on our library PC's.
We've been serving the frequently used titles from CD-ROM towers over
our NT network. The PC's map each networked CD as a drive letter when
the students execute their logon script and the desktop shortcuts
reference those drive letters to start the programs. Problem is, now we
have more than 26 titles we want to network. We've run out of alphabet!.
Do you know of a utility (or a dos command) that can map multiple
network resources as directories under a single drive letter? (I found
one called DISCPORT Executive, but it's quite expensive.) Or, do you
have suggestions outside of that box?
Thanks for your consideration,
Preston
The College Preparatory School
pre...@cps.pvt.k12.ca.us
Ian Payne
Preston Tucker wrote in message <36CB5B91...@cps.pvt.k12.ca.us>...
>Our students do alot of their research on CD-ROMS on our library PC's.
>We've been serving the frequently used titles from CD-ROM towers over
>our NT network. The PC's map each networked CD as a drive letter when
>the students execute their logon script and the desktop shortcuts
>reference those drive letters to start the programs. Problem is, now we
>have more than 26 titles we want to network. We've run out of alphabet!.
>Do you know of a utility (or a dos command) that can map multiple
>network resources as directories under a single drive letter? (I found
>one called DISCPORT Executive, but it's quite expensive.) Or, do you
>have suggestions outside of that box?
I think you'd be better off switching the shortcuts to UNC (i.e.
\\server\share\foo.exe) and stop mapping drive letters.
Sylvan Butler
>Do you know of a utility (or a dos command) that can map multiple
>network resources as directories under a single drive letter? (I found
>one called DISCPORT Executive, but it's quite expensive.) Or, do you
>have suggestions outside of that box?
Linux.
It can mount everything under one directory, and export that directory
in toto and also export the individual sub-entries. I use this feature
at work to mount six NT shares under one directory on Linux, which then
re-exports those six shares as the one common share.
It is not expensive in terms of price, but it may cost you a bit of
learning time/effort. But perhaps someone in your organization is
already familar...
sdb
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