NT SUBST.EXE utility

[Gregery D Engle]

In NT, you can use SUBST to reference a Drive to a UNC path.

With Windows 95 and 98 you can't. I'm wanting to write a utility
that will reference a drive letter to a UNC Path.

I'm not taking about Mapping, because the path isn't a sharename.

It's a directory within a sharename.

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited July 27, 2001).]

[Stuart McLachlan]

Originally posted by Gregery D Engle:
In IN, you can use SUBST to reference a Drive to a UNC path.

With Windows 95 and 98 you can't. I'm wanting to write a utility
that will reference a drive letter to a UNC Path.

I'm not taking about Mapping, because the path isn't a sharename.

It's a directory within a sharename.

SUBST works fine with W95/98 in my experience.

To confirm I just did a SUBST T: \\MyServer\Sharename\SubDir on WIn98 and it worked fine.

I often use it on a development machine to simulate network applications.

What is the problem?




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[Sven Blumenstein]

I've another question:
Does someone now, how to write a Utility, wich does the same as
"mountvol.exe" (only avaible under Win2K, I think)?

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[Gregery D Engle]

I always get PATH NOT FOUND when I try:

Subst k: \\servername\sharename\subdir

This machine was a Win98 Second Edition. I will try an win95
machine too.

I've also tried coping the subst.exe from nt4 and win2k and it
still doesn't work.


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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited July 27, 2001).]

[Sven Blumenstein]

Originally posted by Gregery D Engle:
I always get PATH NOT FOUND when I try:

Subst k: \\servername\sharename\subdir

This machine was a Win98 Second Edition. I will try an win95
machine too.

I've also tried coping the subst.exe from nt4 and win2k and it
still doesn't work.

If you have spaces in the Path, you need to set it in quotes (")



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[Bud Durland]

I always get PATH NOT FOUND when I try:
Subst k: \\servername\sharename\subdir

Are you sure the share exists?

Can you navigate to it from the Network Neighborhood?

Did you actually log in to windows? (if the initial blue login screen is 'canceled' by the user, or doesn't display at all, some networking stuff doesn't get started

Does NET USE work on the share? (NET USE K: \\servername\sharename)

FWIW, PowerBASIC will happily use UNC paths when interacting with files.



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[Gregery D Engle]

Sven,

Share name / subdir doesn't have spaces in it.

Bud,

I can do a NET USE on the sharename, when I try to do a SUBST
on the drive that I just net used I get something to this
extent:

"Can not subst a network drive"

in NT4.0 and Win2k it works perfectly, 98 and 95 it doesn't.

Any more ideas?

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited July 27, 2001).]