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|    foxidrive to sean    |
|    Re: mapping drives over 26    |
|    10 Oct 16 05:21:27    |
      From: foxidrive@server.invalid              You don't have to mount the drives and can access then using the UNC path,       sorta like this.              \\192.168.1.5\share\etc                                   On 9/10/2016 16:29, sean wrote:       > Hi All,       >       > I have a script to mount drives of clients to fetch some data and save       > the results to a file and an sqlite3 database. I'm using net use to map       > the drives and once the script is completed, the I unmount all mounted       > drives on the server. The script reads the IPs of the clients in a       > separate text file and mounts the drives.       >       > The (untested) problem is that windows maps drives by letters. If I have       > a need to mount more than 26 drives, I don't know what would happen. I'm       > assuming, errors would be generated (but unseen) indicating there's no       > more drive letters left.       >       > Right now the workaround is fairly easy: make sure you don't try to get       > data from more than 26 clients at once. Is there a more elegant solution?       > Can my IP list have more than 26, but once it reaches that limit, I can       > set a timeout, unmap and move down the list?       >       > Alternatively, maybe I can have a few text files and it reads one at a       > time.       >       > Thanks for any input.       >       > -sean       >              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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