RE: IFS folders

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also the restriction, depending on the PC os, that the userid and
password be the same on both the 400 and the pc network.  For most end
users, a mapped drive to a share is the easiest thing for them to handle.
It's also the easiest to secure.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Megannon [mailto:jmegannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:08 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: IFS folders
> 
> 
> Hi Trevor,
> 
> 1.) On the 400, MKDIR and F4.
> 2.) To check it on the 400, WRKLNK.
> 3.) You can either go in via OPSNAV (cannot remember the option in the
> left frame), setup a share there and the go into File Shares and map a
> drive or you can access it by path, e.g 
> \\QXXXXXXX\dir\
> where QXXXXXXX is your NetServer name and dir of course the directory
> you created.
> 
> I am sure someone may have mentioned it here before, but here 
> goes. This
> may be of interest to some of the 5250 folks. I did this from the
> iSeries on V5R1 and the 400 on V4R4.
> 
> The customer wanted to provide certain people with the 
> functionality to
> select an option on the 5250 sesion and then have that data
> automagically come up on the PC within an Excel spreadsheet. 
> As a result
> of having seen (in certain ways, incoherent) suggestions to various
> questions on this list, I have provided the customer with the 
> solution.
> As we used to say, the code is efficient, maintainable and 'elegant'.
> 
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