Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu Feb 6 00:47:00 CST 2003
John, I just posted a solution to your question, but I wanted to give you another option, if you want it. If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, go into Windows Explorer, and click your Tools menu. Then select Folder Options. The last tab is 'Offline Files'. In this tab, you can turn on Enable Offline Files. With this turned on, you can right click on any network drive, and you will get an option 'Make Available Offline'. This will walk you through a wizard, that will setup an 'offline' folder. It is going to do essentially what the batch commands I posted do, though it will automatically detect when the drive is now longer availabe on the network. (I have never tried this with a VPN, but I have set it up before for a LAN drive.). The offline folder option will allow you to 'sync' your files, however, and this is a BIG HOWEVER, it will not sync files that Windows knows are db files, such as .mdb and .pst. It does this for obvious reasons. So this may not be a good idea, since I am sure you are working on Access .mdb's across the VPN. Also, you may not want to sync the entire drive you have mapped through the VPN. If not, the SUBST command let's you map a folder to a drive letter when you are off the VPN, and you can create the folders and files that you do want to have 'locally'. You just have to manually 'sync' them. Drew -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:14 PM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] OT: Mapped drive on VPN Guys, I have a VPN setup to allow me to Remote Access into a client's system.. Works great, highly recommended. <snip> _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com