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albertldee
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drive mapping

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is there anyway to share a network drive over the internet the drive i wanted to share is in the office, i would like map one of the drive to my home pc (a dial up)
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Yes it's the same as if you were on a network, net use F: \\servername\sharename

Name resolution has to be good for it to happen. But over dial up, it's not going to be a ball of fire. You may want something like PcAnywhere with it's compressed file transfer, may work better for you.
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Post by monty »

LOL, I see we frequent the same bulletin boards (I saw the same post at TechIMO).
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