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Mapping to network drive using .BAT file
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23/03/2004 11:20:16
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00888895
Message ID:
00888897
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do you need the mapped network drive for your app or can you do without it? we have an app written in 2.6 that needed them but when we upgraded to 7 we forgot to map drives during testing and it still worked fine through the network without the mapping
Slán
~M

>I need to map to a drive on another computer on the network. The network techs gave me the following batch file
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> NET USE R: /D
> NET USE R: \\W0028109792\DATAWARE
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>In the app's startup I do a
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> RUN Yadayada.BAT
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>Sometimes I see a DOS window and everything is great and other times I do not see a DOS window (and my users have to run the BAT file manually from a shortcut on the desktop). Most of my users are running Win XP. We are still using VFP 6 SP5.
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>I am sure there is a better way of doing this in VFP (the politics of getting a login script are a problem at the moment).
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>Thanks.
>
>Tim
Go raibh maith agat

~M
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