If you share a directory named C:\UTIL with a share name of UTIL on the
server PC1. Then the NET command to map this as G:\ on the client PC is:
"NET USE  G: \\PC1\UTIL"

The command "NET USE  G: \\PC1\C\UTIL", as shown in your example, returns an
error 50 because "C\UTIL" is not a legal share name.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Russell McMahon
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:50 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [ot]: How do you map a network subdirectory as adrive
>
>
> Help !!!
> Comprehensiveish Googling fails to answer this.
> A friend is trying to replicate an arrangement on a 2 PC WIN95
> network that
> worked OK until he changed one PC.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to map a subdirectory on a WIN95 networked PC as a
> drive on another PC.
>
> ie he wants to make C:\UTIL on a "remote" PC appear as eg G: on his local
> PC.
>
> NET USE returns error messages when trying to map beyond remote
> drive level
> (despite the examples given by NET USE /? and SUBST won't work on network
> drives.
>
> According to NET USE /? the following should work.
>
>         NET USE  G: \\PC1\C\UTIL
>
>         where G: = drive to map as C:\UTIL on PC1
>         PC1 is remote PC name
>         C: is share name (drive) on remote PC
>         UTIL is a subdirectory on PC1 C:
>
> Using        NET USE  G: \\PC1\C:
> works OK but adding the subdirectory reference returns Error 50.
>
> I am trying this between two WIN98E PCs but what I read on
> internet suggests
> it also doesn't work in WIN95
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>             Russell McMahon
>
>

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