Subj : Re: Windows XP Service Access to Network Mapped Drives problem
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Fri Jul 25 2003 12:41 pm

Vish wrote:

>Thanks Bob, I tried with UNC, but it recognizes only drives within the same
>domain not another machine in the network. For example
>\\othermachine\share\test.txt (this is in the same domain) works fine., but
>if I try to access \\185.12.34.123\share\test.txt (another machine connected
>in the network) it doesn't work. Do you have any comments on this?

Since it isn't in your domain, maybe you don't have access to it?
How were you able to get a mapped drive to it? (You were talking about
using mapped drives, and AFAIK UNC works for mapable drives.)

I know next to nothing about networking.
Perhaps there is a network group here?

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