At 02/06/2006, Bill Hatcher wrote:
IMO, the network drive feature in XP is a MUCH under used capability. One of
the handiest ways I know of to easily access/move files on a LAN...
Maybe, but I think that would largely depend on the size of the
LAN. On my small home network with only a few shares on each
computer, I find it much easier to just open "My Network Places". In
fact, the only times I've bothered mapping a drive at home has been
when using an app that couldn't handle access via the
\\computer\sharename convention; that's been a while though, and I
don't recall what the app was.
On a related note (and somewhat humorous note), if my wife saves
files on the H:\ drive at work -- which is a mapped network drive --
she can access them from home via web client. It allows her to just
double-click the filename. It is then downloaded and opened with the
appropriate app. Despite the fact that I've explained it until I'm
blue in the face, she doesn't understand why her changes aren't saved
when she gets back to work. "Because you saved it on the local hard
drive -- the one in THIS computer. You have to upload it to change
the copy at work." There is even an Upload button on the file access
page of the web site. <sigh>
--
Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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