Hi -
Try using UNC pathnames (\\machinename\resource\folder\etc) rather than
mapped drive letters. To do this, go to the network neighborhood and browse
until you find the share name that is your machine. Navigate to the
resources you want to use and create your workspace. When you save your
workspace, navigate again through the network neighborhood to find the
place where you wish to save your workspace and save it. The tables will be
prefaced with the UNC pathnames. This will allow others to open the
workspaces without identical drive mappings.
To save existing workspaces that have hard drive/path names like C:\ in
them, replace all the "c:\" entries with "\\machine\resource" for example,
if your machine is called "dave" and the share for the C drive is "C",
replace "C:\" with "\\dave\C\".
The other solution is to assign a consistent drive mapping convention and
stick to it, like everyone has a C:\ drive, plus maybe a Zip and a cd or
two, and maybe another hard drive - so start your mapping at I or something
so that Dave is I, Mary is J, and Saddam is K or whatever. That way, the K
drive will be the same on all machines. We did this in the good old days
when our network was WFWG3.1 and before we had a dedicated file server. We
eventually ran out of drive letters, but it worked for a couple of years...
Good luck!
Lindsay Giles
Senior GIS Analyst
AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd
Suite 600-555 4th Ave. SW
Calgary, AB
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Warman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:57 PM
To: Mapinfo-L
Subject: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network
[] Listers,
Has anyone run into the problem of sharing workspaces that were created on
one machine, across a W98 peer-to-peer network? The problem is that all the
file paths in the workspaces start with C:\, and of course that's not how
the other machines on the network see my hard drive.
I sure someone has dealt with this before.
Cheers,
_____________________________
Tim Warman
Geologist & GIS Specialist
Richard C. Slade & Associates
North Hollywood, CA
(818) 506-0418
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