Re: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network

[Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc.]

Natalie, Tim:

You can just open the workspace with a text editor like 
notepad and change the drive letter (and path if necessary) in 
the open statements..

The best solutions I came across when we were doing p2p 
is to place a subst statement in the autoexec on whatever 
computer is hosting the files and pick a standard drive letter.

The subst makes it basically map a local drive or folder to a
new drive letter, so for instance my C:\Work directory also
appears as the L:\ drive. (check "subst /?") I think you would
go: "subst L: C:\Work"

Then if I set a share on C:\Work and people map that as L:\,
we can share workspaces without a hitch... (I just have to 
remember not to click at c:\work when I want to do stuff, I
need to go to the L:\ drive.)

I think at one point, my computer was the L:\ drive, my 
neighbor's was the W:\ drive, and there was also an S:\
drive on someone else' computer...something like that.

Anyway, just a precaution about peer-to-peer, there are
viruses which will scan the network for unprotected shares,
grab saved and cached passworks from the registry and
hunt for Windows system folders to infect, so try to avoid
sharing anything above your windows folder like C:\  ;)

hope this is of some assistance, let me know if I can clarify 
anything,
Eric

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Subject: RE: MI using workspaces across a W98 peer to peer network


> PLEASE pass on any info.
> We've been struggling with the same problem for some time now.
> 
> TIA
> Natalie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Warman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:57 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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