IMHO the one advantage of a mapped drive is if you have references to full paths stored anywhere, and you are running out of disk space or otherwise need to change to a different location/server, a single change to the drive mapping handles that migration. Having said that, if you're not living in the desktop/LAN world it's not all that useful.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Friday, December 7, 2018 10:27 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Broken Windows
UNC paths.
use \myserver\myshare\mytable.dbf
open data "\myserver\my share with spaces in the name\mydatabase.dbc" use mytable
and so forth.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, at 1:56 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:10 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
There's absolutely no reason to use mapped drives in this day and age.
What is the current best practice for accessing shared DBFs on a server?