Re: Mapping a Network Drive (iSeries Folder)

Evan,

The folder is shared.

How does one "map to the system only"?

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:53 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Mapping a Network Drive (iSeries Folder)

Jerry

have you checked whether the directory you want to map to is shared
from the iseries ?

Ops navigator will show you what directories are shared.

What happens if you map to the system only ?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know if I should be posting this here or at Midrange-L, but I'll

try

here first.



I'm not able to map a network drive in Windows Explorer to our System i
(V5R1).  I had to use the HOSTS table to define the name of the System i

by

its IP address, which works when I use Windows' FTP.  This name, also,

works

fine for Client Access.



I've tried defining the folder using this name in the "Map Network Drive"
panel, such as: \\OurSystem\\Jerry (Jerry is a shared folder in the root
directory of the IFS).  Couldn't connect.  I, also, tried the i's specific
IP address, such as \\123.456.78.901\Jerry.  No dice.



Netserver is running, according to iSeries Navigator (V5R4).  I went

through

the configuration panels, but not really sure what many (most?) of them
mean.



Current Users panel: Yes

Name Selection panel - Yes, use current name

Description panel - left the default iSeries

Domain panel - I entered MSHOME, which was one of the domains I saw when I
browsed during the Map Network Drive setup.

Logon Support panel - No

Guest Access panel - No

CCSID panel - 0 - Use iSeries NetServer CCSID (the default)

Idle Session Timeout - No 6000 seconds

Browse Announcements - No

WINS panel - No

Start with TCP/IP - Yes



I've never had trouble mapping a System i folder before, but admittedly

the

networks on which I worked before were pretty well set up; this one is so
convoluted that I can't even print from Word to a PC sitting 10' from me,
but I can print to one down the hall.  So maybe that's the issue with the
drive mapping.



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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