Re: Sharing a computer versus its drives?

Thanks, Jim. An unfortunate decision on Microsoft's behalf since it would
be a great advantage to administrators who would only need one shortcut per
computer rather than one for each drive!

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Is there anyway to share a whole computer, rather than just its separate
drives in a peer-to-peer network (wired and wireless) configuration?
Often we would like for the administrator to have network icons in
'Network Places' that would simply connect the administrator to the
connected laptop, including all its drives, rather than having to create
an icon or line entry for each separate drive on the client laptop. Can
this be done in some fashion by creating a share for the computer rather
than just its drives?

It certainly could be done. It has been done with other operating
systems. However, doing so requires lots and lots and lots of code.
The people who designed NT certainly knew about the techniques, but they
decided that it would not be cost effective to include this functionality.
Jim



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