samba - May 1999 - Problem mapping drive names on Win95 again

>> Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 16:50:55 -0400 
>> From: Wolfgang Albrecht <Wolfgang_Albrecht@compuserve.com> 
>> To: Samba <Samba@Samba.org> 
>> Subject: Problem mapping drive names on Win95 
>> 
>> in my Office, I'm trying to replace a Novell-server by a
Linux-server.
On 
>> the Novell-server, there is the SYS: volume. On this volume is a
directory 
>> named DriveT. I did a map on it, so this SYS:DriveT was used as T: . If
>> you link Excel sheets, which are stored on T:, to Word documents, Word 
>> unfortunately saves the UNC path, which is \\SERVER1\SYS\DRIVET instead
of 
>> T: 
>> 
>> On my new Samba server, I`m trying to keep the same paths, because 
>> there are many hundred Word documents with thousands of links to Excel 
>> sheets. So I named the Linux server SERVER1, I created directory /SYS
and 
>> a directory DriveT in SYS. In this way, the UNC path is still the same.
>> .....
>This is the mistake. Create a directory and call it /DILBERT 
>
>in your smb.conf have the section 
>
>[SYS] 
>comment = shared folder on Server1 
>path = /DILBERT 
>browseable = yes 
>writable = yes 
>public = yes 
>
>Then from Windoze Network Neighborhood you will see 
>\\SERVER1\SYS 
>
>Then from Network Neighborhood, you can right click on this folder 
>and Map Network Drive to T: 
>
>cheers, 
Thank you for your letter, but this is not exactly the problem I ment. 
I know how to make shares named:

\\Server1\SYS and
\\Server1\DriveT

I don't know how to make a share named

\\Server1\SYS\DriveT

I would like to map this to T: to achieve compatibility to my old
Novell server.

Thank you in advance,

Wolfgang_Albrecht@Compuserve.com

On 12 May 99, at 17:00, Wolfgang Albrecht wrote about
    "Problem mapping drive names on Win9":

| >> Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 16:50:55 -0400 
| >> From: Wolfgang Albrecht <Wolfgang_Albrecht@compuserve.com> 
| >> To: Samba <Samba@Samba.org> 
| >> Subject: Problem mapping drive names on Win95 
| >> 
| >> in my Office, I'm trying to replace a Novell-server by a
Linux-server.
| On 
| >> the Novell-server, there is the SYS: volume. On this volume is a
| directory 
| >> named DriveT. I did a map on it, so this SYS:DriveT was used as T: .
If
| >> you link Excel sheets, which are stored on T:, to Word documents,
Word
| >> unfortunately saves the UNC path, which is \\SERVER1\SYS\DRIVET
instead
| of 
| >> T: 
| >> 
| >> On my new Samba server, I`m trying to keep the same paths, because 
| >> there are many hundred Word documents with thousands of links to
Excel
| >> sheets. So I named the Linux server SERVER1, I created directory /SYS
| and 
| >> a directory DriveT in SYS. In this way, the UNC path is still the
same.
| >> .....
|...
| Thank you for your letter, but this is not exactly the problem I ment. 
| I know how to make shares named:
| 
| \\Server1\SYS and
| \\Server1\DriveT
| 
| I don't know how to make a share named
| 
| \\Server1\SYS\DriveT
| 
| I would like to map this to T: to achieve compatibility to my old
| Novell server.

SMB doesn't support the concept of mapping a subdirectory on a share 
to a drive letter.  So you can't create a single share that will let 
you do what you want: have a directory with a UNC of 
\\server1\sys\drivet, and also be mapped as T:\.

The solution is to create *two* shares, one named "sys" with path 
"/sys", and one named "drivet" with path
"/sys/drivet".  Then map the
"drivet" share to T: so your Excel links work, and the unmapped
"sys"
share will allow your UNC links to work.

- Fred Viles <mailto:fv@epitools.com>