Sharing drive and mapping drive letter via script

On Sep 24, 12:05 pm, "John" <J....RemoveThis@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to use some sort of script to share C drive on a standalone
> PC and then map the letter Z to the shared drive?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards

First of all, you'd have to have "File and printer" sharing turned on.
I'm not sure about the scripting for creating a share but if you
manually created a share, you could then create a batch file for
mapping to it. For example, let's say you had a shared folder called
"Utilities" (that could be any folder including the C: drive) and your
computer's name was "thiscomputer" then Your command for mapping to
it would be "net use Z: \\thiscomputer\Utilities"

John wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to use some sort of script to share C drive on a standalone
> PC and then map the letter Z to the shared drive?
>

No, because, by definition, a "standalone" PC has no network connection
with any other computers, so sharing isn't an option.

It is possible to do so with networked computers, however.

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