Map a network drive to an FTP server?

27 Dec 2006 12:57 AM

Noozer

Is it possible to map a Windows XP drive letter to a share on an FTP server,
via the FTP protocol?

Windows can browse an FTP server as though it were a local drive, so why not
map a drive letter?

27 Dec 2006 10:27 AM

Richard G. Harper

Windows does not support mapping an FTP location as a drive letter.

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"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to map a Windows XP drive letter to a share on an FTP
> server, via the FTP protocol?
>
> Windows can browse an FTP server as though it were a local drive, so why
> not map a drive letter?
>

27 Dec 2006 10:33 AM

Ron Lowe

"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to map a Windows XP drive letter to a share on an FTP
> server, via the FTP protocol?
>
> Windows can browse an FTP server as though it were a local drive, so why
> not map a drive letter?
>

No, but you can add it as a 'Network Place'.
That gives you some similar functionality to a mapped drive in terms of
drag-and-drop.

You won't however, be able to refer to it with a drive letter (
z:\some_directory\some_file ) or by UNC pathname (
\\some_server\some_directory\some_file ).

I often wondered why that function was not implimented too.

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