RE: What protocol is used for Network Drive?

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:
> If you are using Windows, you can map a remote system's disk to a drive
> at Explorer->Tools->Map network drive. I wonder what protocol (or
> simply, what kind of service) does Windows use to recognize a network
> drive and to communicate with it.
>
> I mean, there are several applications that create "network drives" on
> the user's system which is not actually network drives. For example,
> there are some programs that map any FTP server to plain Windows
> network drive. Can I can get any information about the protocol?

This facility is named Network Redirector and Remote file systems.
Described in MSDN, please start reading there.

Note that Internet explorer also can display FTP site so that
it looks as network share, but actually it is just a GUI
trick of the IE.

Regards,
--PA