Mapping a drive on a isolated computure

[Anonymous]

At the office workstations access a drive on the server for standard
files. To make every computer and the paths to reference files the same, I
map the network dive to "L" on each workstation.
I want to copy the critical support files from the server for use on non
networked lap tops so that a mobile user will basically have the same set up
at the networked workstations. Is there a way to do this when the lap top
does not have a network card, and is set up as an isolated computer?
Thank you for your help.
Jonathon

[Anonymous]

Please excuse my spelling of "computure"

"Giebeler" wrote in message
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> At the office workstations access a drive on the server for standard
> files. To make every computer and the paths to reference files the same,
I
> map the network dive to "L" on each workstation.
> I want to copy the critical support files from the server for use on
non
> networked lap tops so that a mobile user will basically have the same set
up
> at the networked workstations. Is there a way to do this when the lap top
> does not have a network card, and is set up as an isolated computer?
> Thank you for your help.
> Jonathon
>
>

[Anonymous]

Giebeler,

Use the substitute command in the autoexec.bat file:
...
subst L: D:\library
subst M: D:\projec~1
...

This will allow you to disconnect the laptop and still find L: and M:
The M: drive is an example of a long file name (d:\procects foo files) DOS
hates that.

Hope this gets you started

~KRK~

[Anonymous]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:06:20 -0800, "The KID" wrote:

>Use the substitute command in the autoexec.bat file:
>...
>subst L: D:\library
>subst M: D:\projec~1
>...
>
>This will allow you to disconnect the laptop and still find L: and M:
>The M: drive is an example of a long file name (d:\procects foo files) DOS
>hates that.

Use double quotes around paths with spaces, instead of the dippy ~1 workaround.

e.g.

subst M: "D:\My Local Project Files"

I recommend that you put these lines in a "startup.cmd" file and place that in
the Startup folder for that user. Autoexec.bat may or may not be parsed at
startup depending on a registry setting.

I would also suggest a little tweaking in order to allow for testing of the
"real" network and map those drive letters when the laptop is connected to the
LAN.

Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@beyerdesign.com

[Anonymous]

PERFECT! Thank you - it works great. BTW is anyone using a program or
command that could synchronize the laptop's mapped folder with the "real"
folder on the network when the laptop user connects to the network. This
way every time they connected the laptop would be updated with the current
standards, notes, support files, etc.
Jonathon

[Anonymous]

With Windows 2000 I've started using the "Work Offline" folder option.
What you do is choose a folder (fww never tried a whole drive before),
right-click, and pick work offline. Now, when you disconnect you still
have that folder available locally with the drive mapping intact, if any.
When you reconnect it syncs. If anything has changed on the server you'll
get the new stuff and vice-versa. If an item has changed both places
you'll get a notice and can manually resolve the differences.

Other than that, you could use a batch or WSH file to detect when it's
connected to the network and have it re-copy everything to the local. (if
exist "L:\xxx" then copy ...) However, if it's a lot of bytes it may be
too time consuming. I don't know if you can specify something like "if
date is newer than 10 days of today then copy", but you probably can.

Enjoy,
Stef
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"Giebeler" wrote in
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> PERFECT! Thank you - it works great. BTW is anyone using a program or
> command that could synchronize the laptop's mapped folder with the
> "real" folder on the network when the laptop user connects to the
> network. This way every time they connected the laptop would be
> updated with the current standards, notes, support files, etc.
> Jonathon