Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)

Gunther Ebert gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de
Thu Sep 25 22:28:00 GMT 1997


Valery Fine wrote:
> 
> On 25 Sep 97 at 12:20, Gunther Ebert wrote:
> 
> > It works (even if you don't have a local share called 'c') as well
> > as
> 
>   NT always supply share like "<drive letter>$" for all drives "by
> deafult" (is followed by "$" though).
> 

I didn't forget the '$' sign in my last message. The "<drive letter>$"
shares are also only accessable by administrators, but "//./c/" works for
all users, no matter if they are administrators or not (it seems to
be a mapping to "\\.\c:\")


Gunther

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