>Ok SQL-peeps
>
>What do I have to do to this ferschulenge SQL Server to get it to recognize the local drive?
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>I've tried "c:\..."
>"\\file:\c:\..."
>"\\localhost\c$\..."
>"127.0.0.1\..."
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>And all of them give me some form of "I have no idea what you're talking about" mesage.
>
>'Look....I'm 6 inches in on this brick wall and there's STILL no daylight to be seen.'

You need to share the drive first (c$ is an administrative share so only local admins can use it), open explorer, go to the folder you want to share (or c if you want to share the whole drive, which I do not think is a good idea) and right click on it and select "Share" (and maybe "Advance Sharing" in Win 7, now you give a name to the share, lets say "SQLExport", you give appropriate permissions to the account running the SQL Server Service and you can use \\machinename\SQLExport or \\localhost\SQLExport (I cant give you more details on how to share for I do not remember in other OSs other than Win 7)

[Update] This link looks good http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040 or better http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Share-files-and-folders-over-the-network-from-Windows-Vista-Inside-Out