>>I'd say that "exactly the same" never really existed. It's in the eye of... whoever wants to stop you from getting too deep into their setup.
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>[shrug] In the situation I was dealing with, indeed the old server and new server were logically configured the same way -- a mapped network drive is indistinguishable from a physical drive in an abstract sense (i.e. a reference to storage device), if you choose to disregard a certain level of detail.

"if you choose to disregard a certain level of detail" is not "exactly the same"... caveat emptor :).