From: Tobias Hofmann [mailto:tobias.hofmann AT MEDIEN.UNI-WEIMAR DOT DE] 
> I would like to create a devclass of devtype=file on a windows 2000
> server (w2k) running tsm5.1.0.0 using as dir-path a mounted share of
> another machine. So what I do is I mount the share of the 
> other machine,
> using the gui-analogon to "net use" (sorry, German OS here, don,t know
> the English terms by heart), on, say, drive f:, and then do
> 
> define devclass remoteshare devtype=file dir="f:\tsmbackups" on the
> admin command line. result is
> 
> ANR8366E DEFINE DEVCLASS: Invalid value for DIRECTORY parameter.

Remember that a drive letter doesn't get mapped unless the user who
mapped the drive is logged on. That's why TSM doesn't allow device
classes to use drive mappings in the directory parameter.
 
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