Re: Mapping a Network Drive (iSeries Folder)

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx>]

You must create a file share first using Navigator.

Get into Navigator and go to files and open up file shares...

Create one name "root" as an example with a path of "/",
then go back and do your map using something like
\\192.168.10.2\root\home\mapped drive

On 4/18/2011 3:19 PM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
> I don't know if I should be posting this here or at Midrange-L, but I'll try
> here first.
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> 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.
>
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> 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.
>
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> Netserver is running, according to iSeries Navigator (V5R4).  I went through
> the configuration panels, but not really sure what many (most?) of them
> mean.
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> 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
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> 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.
>
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>
> Jerry C. Adams
>
> IBM i Programmer/Analyst
>
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