During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs
in Win 10 apparently by
mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
I know Linux and Mac OS does that anyway. Anybody actually used it in Windows? Any pros/cons? Would it work with drives on my attached storage?
Jeff Gaines wrote:
During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had >>managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs
you might mean UNC paths to your NAS?
in Win 10 apparently by mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
That's been "a thing" since NT4, and probably NT3.5x as well
I've used it without any problems, might confuse some people when a >directory, rather than a drive gives errors about having no free space.
During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs in Win 10 apparently by mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
I know Linux and Mac OS does that anyway. Anybody actually used it in Windows? Any pros/cons? Would it work with drives on my attached storage?
I believe some Windows APIs don't work with UNC paths, so some apps don't accept them.
On 28/02/2024 19:48, Theo wrote:
I believe some Windows APIs don't work with UNC paths, so some apps don't accept them.
There are certainly programs that aren't aware of UNC paths, and so
reject perfectly valid names. Whether that's the programs trying to do
strict checking of pathnames and getting it wrong or failure of the APIs
I'm not sure.
During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs in Win 10 apparently by mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
I know Linux and Mac OS does that anyway. Anybody actually used it in Windows? Any pros/cons? Would it work with drives on my attached storage?
Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had
managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs in Win 10 apparently by
mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
I know Linux and Mac OS does that anyway. Anybody actually used it in
Windows? Any pros/cons? Would it work with drives on my attached storage?
I believe some Windows APIs don't work with UNC paths, so some apps don't accept them.
Theo
In article <urofgf$4q4s$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel James wrote...
On 28/02/2024 19:48, Theo wrote:
I believe some Windows APIs don't work with UNC paths, so some apps don't >>> accept them.
There are certainly programs that aren't aware of UNC paths, and so
reject perfectly valid names. Whether that's the programs trying to do
strict checking of pathnames and getting it wrong or failure of the APIs
I'm not sure.
You may be able to get round this by generating a 'virtual' drive letter using
the SUBST command-line operation.
On 28 Feb 2024 at 08:23:42 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
During the course of my post about a NAS/attached storage I said I had >>managed to maintain the drive letters on my external drive.
I could scrap drive letters and just use URLs in Win 10 apparently by >>mounting each drive in an NTFS directory.
I know Linux and Mac OS does that anyway. Anybody actually used it in >>Windows? Any pros/cons? Would it work with drives on my attached storage?
Seems to me that the better idea would be to put the NAS/DAS drives into
some sort of redundant array where they appear as one volume to the
OS...
Cheers - Jaimie
On 28/02/2024 19:48, Theo wrote:
I believe some Windows APIs don't work with UNC paths, so some apps don't
accept them.
There are certainly programs that aren't aware of UNC paths, and so
reject perfectly valid names. Whether that's the programs trying to do
strict checking of pathnames and getting it wrong or failure of the
APIs I'm not sure.
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