Re: Mapping a local PC drive to the AS/400

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck, the iSeries as delivered does not have ROOT shared. You need to 
create a file share to '/' in NetServer, then you can map to it. I gave a 
detailed procedure in a recent post - within the last couple days.

There'll be a login screen/dialog of some sort.

HTH

Vern

At 03:45 PM 1/10/03 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Got a CD from a software vendor and the GREAT instructions to "map a
> drive to your pc, insert the CD and drag and drop to the AS/400".
>
> OK, so I went to a PC (our Quadrant FastFax Server) which uses Client
> Access to attach to our AS/400 (620-2179 at V4R5). I see that I have an
> I: drive mapped to FFXDIR which is the Quadrant product. So I TRY to map
> a drive, any drive to the AS/400 and nothing works.
>
> It starts the router connection with a FFXSYS profile so I disconnect
> that and start it with QSECOFR for proper authority and tried again - no
> luck.
>
> I to into Explorer and can see our AS/400 so I try to drag and drop the
> folder from the CD to the AS/400 but the cursor turns into a circle with
> a line through it.
>
> OK so I go to my PC running Windows 200 Pro and the Synapse IP-Client
> product and TRY to map a drive through there and am not sure how to get
> it to find the ROOT of our AS/400. I can get (none)\\ip address of our
> AS/400\QCA400 and (none)\\ip address of our AS/400\QIBM and that is it.
> I have our IP address in our HOSTS file. To I actually have to have our
> System Name in there too ?
>
> Thanks for any help - this CAN'T be this hard but I seem to be in DUH
> mode today..
>
> Chuck