Virtual Folders?

I was woundering if this was possible. I have a mapped network drive and i wanted to take one of those folders and map it on my local drive. Is there a way to do this, what would i need if its possible.

e:/medi/reports/today -> c:/reports

I'm not sure I understand your question. If you're using Windows, you can right-click on any folder and share it out under the name of your choosing.

When you map a network drive, you map it to a root drive, rather than a particular folder. For example, if you have the folder e:/medi/reports/today on a computer which you want to map, you can just select Tools, Map Network Drive from Windows Explorer, and map this folder to a drive, such as Z: or Y: (or anything that isn't already used). You can't map it to something like Z:\folder though.

so can't map a remote folder to a folder in my local c: drive?

When you map a network drive, you can't enter something like C:\Windows into the drive location. However, you can enter something like \\computername\c$\Windows - replacing computername with the name of your computer. When you set up a network on your computer, the whole of the C drive is by default shared on the network under an administrative share of c$ - you should be able to map to this OK to access your hard drive. Apart from this, there is no other way I can think to do it.

Perhaps have a look here: http://forums.devshed.com/t128766/s.html

This is what i'm trying to accomplish. I have some old med software that saves to c:\medicare and reads from there as well. I have a network which has the software on all the computers, but on the remote computer i need it to read from //xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/medicare but a cant because in the software its self wont let me change the dir from c:\medicare to //xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/medicare or g:\medicare (which is a map of the remotes c:\)...Any suggestion?

Can I use

subst c:\medi\ k:\medicare

or

net use c:\med k:\medicare

A simple answer is no - both methods only allow you to map a network drive or local folder to a root drive, such as k:, rather than something like c:\medi

Can I just check what you are asking? You have a computer with software which has installed on to C:\medicare. You, on your remote computers, need to be able to read from the local C:\medicare folder, which actually contains the contents of the medicare folder on the other remote computer. You need the C:\medicare folder on one computer to exactly mirror the contents of the C:\medicare folder on another computer.

You basically want to mount a network drive within a specific folder. I'm pretty certain that this can't be done (you can mount a local drive within a NTFS folder, but not a network one).

You could just write a script which copies the contents of the remote drive to the local drive which you could run every evening - this would achieve the same but would be less efficient.

I've been looking into accomplishing the same thing. Basically the picky software I'm using refuses to work with even a mapped network drive (much less a UNC path) as a source.

One idea I had was to use NTFS junction points, but alas these can't span a network (atleast with with Microsoft-provided linkd.exe or the free junction.exe you can find on google.)

However, I was going to try to use DFS Junction Points (distributed file system.) My hope was that I could create a DFS root on my computer, a local folder like "root", and then add the network location underneath that root. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to test this out because only Windows Server can host DFS roots, not XP. Ugh.

Yep. You're right. You'll need Windows 2000 or 2003 server if you want to use DFS. They are really designed for large networks with dedicated servers, so that's why you'll only find it with the server software.