Neil,

Tuesday, February 05, 2002, 11:19:35 AM, you wrote:

NF> That's a bit of a pain :) Any idea if this will be supported at some point?

Apparently it will not be supported. Disk file system differs
from networking file system. MySQL will not work via networking file system.

NF> Cheers, Neil
NF> Victoria Reznichenko wrote:
>> Neil,
>>
>> Monday, February 04, 2002, 6:00:18 PM, you wrote:
>> NF> Hi,
>>
>> NF> Ideally I wish to keep all of my database files on a network drive
>> NF> (X:\). Using WinMySQLAdmin.exe I have created a my.ini file which
>> NF> resides in my WINNT directory.
>>
>> NF> Upon starting the MySQL service though I receive the error message
>> NF> "Could not start the Mysql service on \\DELL02. Error 1067: The process
>> NF> terminated unexpectedly". I have copied the databases to a local drive
>> NF> (D:\) and altered the my.ini file and all works well.
>>
>> NF> Does anyone know why I cannot use MySQL to access databases on a
>> NF> networked drive???
>>
>> MySQL doesnt support loading files from Windows/samba shares.
>>




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