[AccessD] Mapped Drive

Thanks for the response.
The client is dictating which drive I have to use.

Yes, I tried to set some looser permissions from the properties dialog.
Lately sometimes it "sticks" and the changes I made are there next time I
check. And sometimes not. 
Irregardless, I can't write to files in that folder. 
Error = You do not have permissions.....



 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:21 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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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