How to I open a file on a network drive

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How to I open a file on a network drive

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Re: How to I open a file on a network drive by fundflow (Chaplain) on Aug 31, 2000 at 21:08 UTC
On Unix you need to mount the drive (e.g. via NFS) and put it on the directory tree. Then you'll have something like: /mnt/mountpath/file On DOS/Windows, you can try: \\machine\drive\file and if your environment is set up fine it will work. Cheers	[reply]
Re: How to I open a file on a network drive by jreades (Friar) on Aug 31, 2000 at 20:10 UTC
You don't say anything about what kind of network drive? Or even what kind of network? In an ideal world you can mount shared directories and use them as you would a local fs... It sounds like you probably can't do this so you might need to switch to treating the network as such and opening a connection to the remote fs. Anyway, more information will help I'm sure.	[reply]

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