Weird question #47:

On the WinNT server, has anyone been able to define a DEVCLASS of type FILE
using a network mounted directory?

This is what I did:

DEFINE DEVCLASS DISKFILE DEVTYPE=FILE DIRECTORY=G: MOUNTLIMIT=2
BACKUP DB TYPE=FULL DEVCLASS=DISKFILE

When the driectory is D:, a local hard drive, this works just fine.

When the directory is G:, which is a persistent connection to a network
mapped drive, it gets the message "mount failed".  I can write to G: with a
"print to file" from the admin client, so I know the directory can be
written to.

Is this a known limitation, or is there something I am missing here?

Thanks!

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Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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