[AccessD] Mapped Drive

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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