[AccessD] Mapped Drive

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Apr 4 16:31:38 CDT 2011


Permissions on a folder are whihcever are the more severe between direct and shared.

You need to set appropriate permissions on the actual folder in Explorer as well in the 
Sharing dialog.

-- 
Stuart

On 4 Apr 2011 at 14:24, b heygood wrote:

> 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.....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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