by Spock » Mon 2005 Jun 13 2:11
I will be going into class a bit early Monday if you want to meet me there. I could then show you how to "Map a network drive".
It's really quite simple. You use Network Neighborhood to find the Host computer and then the shared drive you want to access.
In Windows XP (which is what I'm running at the moment) you then select from the Client computer Menubar "Tools\Map Network Drive..." and it will offer you a popup window where you can set the simulated drive letter and, if you want, you can choose to automatically reconnect at each login to the network.
Once a Network Drive is connected this way, you can treat it as a local drive on the Client computer. Obviously they have a series of programs that are to be installed on the Client from the Host.
"Copy USMT.BAT", as can be seen, is a batch file that you could look at using notepad if you wanted to. When you double-click on it, it will start executing the lines of code one at a time, thereby performing most of the bulk data transfer in a semi-automated manner.