Need to map a network drive to a local variable

[galneon]

This should be no problem with NTFS (or any modern FS), but I can't seem to find a way to do it in XP... I don't think environmental variables are the answer.

Anyway, I use my laptop for emulation and my console library is on a separate drive fully accessible on my network, but on my desktop rig. I need to create a variable on my laptop for, say, virtual partition "E:" that would redirect to \\desktoppc\x\console\. That way, my game library appears local to GameEx while the underlying file system itself takes care of the rerouting to my networked drive. Any ideas? I'm sure this is doable, just not having any luck finding where I can do it. Plenty of file managers allow you to create virtual directories, but these are artificial and have nothing to do with FS-level re-addressing.

[Tom Speirs]

Place the following into a .bat file (batch file, just a normal notepad text file with .bat extension) and run at system or gameex startup

net use e: \\desktoppc\x\console passwordhere /user:usernamehere

Otherwise just Tools menu in windows explorer > MAP Drive.

The benefit of the first method is you can specify and hard code a specific user and pass.

Note: first you would share the drive or folder on the desktop pc.

To map to a drive use \\desktoppc\c$ (Change c to drive letter).

[galneon]

Thanks, just what I needed. It's been too long since I've used Explorer obviously