[AccessD] Mapped Drive

I agree with Charlotte completely.   That's exactly what I do.

Use UNC paths, not mappings, store your development and production paths somewhere in 
te FE  and include a re-link procress to switch between development and production BEs.  

Triggering the rellink  can be controlled in all sorts of ways, including fully automated by 
checking the location of the FE on startup.

-- 
Stuart


On 4 Apr 2011 at 13:20, Charlotte Foust wrote:

> Frankly, I think you would be better off providing for a means storing
> whatever location the program is in and using a pointer to that
> location in your code.  I can guarantee that somewhere along the way,
> a single user will have already mapped the drive you want to use in
> such a way that your mapping will break on their end too.
> 
> I'm not clear on whether you set mapping to M:\ in Win 7 and then set
> the user permissions on the mapped drive from the security tab of the
> Properties dialog of the mapped drive or not.  On your own machine you
> can create a shortcut the run the access app as administrator, which
> should give you permissions to the mapped drive as well.  Are you
> saying that doesn't work reliably?  And is this SP1 or vanilla Win 7?
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM, b heygood <bheygood at abestsystems.com>
> wrote: >  Good Morning, > >   I have always been successful in mapping
> one of my folders on a local > drive to appear as a drive (example:
> M:\). > > Now with Win 7, I have had no luck in writing and sometimes
> reading the > resulting mapped drive. > > I am pretty sure it has to
> do with some aspect of user/admin rights. > > But when I change and
> modify the properties of the mapped drive, I still am > not able to
> use it. > > It's very important as I, like most of you, need to
> replicate a clients > setup so as not to have to redo links and other
> operations. > > Like Barry found out (libraries), I am sure that this
> is another instance of > MS protecting us from ourselves. > >  ????s >
> >  What is the secret to this ? > > Best, > > Bob Heygood > > -- >
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