Hmmmm, As I said, our network expert is away on leave so please, no acronyms.
I am probably wrong, but if you are thinking I was talking about drive letter
mappings, then that is not so. By volume name I mean the actual name on the
server, not the drive letter that is (maybe) mapped to it on the client. The
client does not care whether or not the user has a drive mapped to it, it just
wants to be able to grab a file of the server (where the service is running)
from the location that the service tells it. If figured this would be something
like "ServerName//TempStorage/Reports/NewReport123.txt". The problem was, how
can the service find out the name of the server (I forgot to mention the servers
may be unix or NT machines and the services are written in java).
I guess this is probably more a java question maybe? I don't know. As I said,
our network expert yada yada yada.....
Phil.
Aaron Scott-Boddendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 21/02/2000
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> Our network expert is away on leave at the moment so can anybody help me with
> the following question?
> How does the service communicate to the client exactly where the file is? Does
a
> server know it's volume name? (the same name that a client machine would call
> it). And if so, how can the service find out the name of the volume that it is
> running on?
very IMHO but you shouldn't store it on your application volume anyway... better
that
a registry config is read at startup that defines an output space to write files
to that
is guarenteed by network management to be accessible by all client machines...
would pay to use UNC for the destination too if the output will support the
naming format
as then network management need not worry about the limited availability of free
entries
in the Drive letter namespace.
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