From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert)
Subject: Re: Drive letter conversion (Re: pathname conversion)
25 Sep 1997 22:45:47 -0700
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Valery Fine wrote:
> 
> On 25 Sep 97 at 12:20, Gunther Ebert wrote:
> 
> > It works (even if you don't have a local share called 'c') as well
> > as
> 
>   NT always supply share like "<drive letter>$" for all drives "by
> deafult" (is followed by "$" though).
> 

I didn't forget the '$' sign in my last message. The "<drive letter>$"
shares are also only accessable by administrators, but "//./c/" works for
all users, no matter if they are administrators or not (it seems to
be a mapping to "\\.\c:\")


Gunther

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