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|    23 Jul 16 14:19:10    |
      23 Jul 16 09:16, you wrote to Matthew Munson:               RF> I networked my WinServer and have wcOline running on Windows 2003        RF> server where there is a shared drive off the WinServer machine for wc5        RF> and my door games. All is working, but it took some effort to get it        RF> right. Networking WinServer was not hard, the hard part was geting        RF> the games working on that shared drive where before they knew to go to        RF> drive d: and now the shared folder is W: So I had to take all the        RF> drive desginations out of the batch files and configuration file of        RF> each game.              the way to handle this without having to remove the drive designations is to       map that drive on the host as well as the others... in this way /all/ machines       would have the same W: drive... we used to do this in our start up scripts       like this...              @echo off       net use W: \\wrksta1\disk1       net use X: \\wrksta1\disk2       net use Y: \\wrksta2\disk1       net use Z: \\wrksta3\disk1                     it was much easier to do this this way than to try to figure out how to map a       locally shared drive on the local sharing system in a GUI...                     )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey              ... When an old person dies, a library is lost.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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