Windows 98 won't let you map a shared drive on itself - but the SUBST
command should do the trick for you:
http://www.computerhope.com/substhlp.htm
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"Stephen Ford" <stephen_NO_@_SPAM_uwclub.net.> wrote in message
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> I've just set up a few PCs on a office workgroup (win 98se and XP) and
> have stumbled (tripped!)
> over the problem of sharing data and how to set up a coherent set of drive
> lettes across all PCs.
>
> The problem is how to set up workgroup PCs so that one shares its data
> (and uses it); the others use the data (across the workgroup); and all the
> software is the same copy on all the PCs, with the implication that all
> the drive letters that the software uses have to be available on all the
> PCs!
>
> The PC builds are very different, so the default drive letters are all
> very different.
>
> There isn't a server as such, but one of the PC's (the oldest, win98se) is
> sharing
> out more data than any other, so I'll call that the "server", and the
> others the "clients".
>
> I think I need to define a set of drive letters which appear on each PC,
> along with the default letters that appear because of the hardware
> configuration.
>
> I think part of the solution is to "map" a set of drives on the clients to
> the drives on the "server", but how do I create the drives on the "server"
> so that they are the same as those on all the other PCs?
>
> I'm not sure that mapping a drive on the workgroup back to itself is a
> good idea? Any other options?
>
> Regards
> Stephen Ford
>
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