8.0 drive letter / path change

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Agreed, I never understood (nor really questioned) why they chose to map
in earlier versions.



Bruce Butler

Information Systems Manager



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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Charlie Smith
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:50 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: 8.0 drive letter / path change



Using the UNC, you are less likely to have a user do something that
could be destructive. I don't know how many times I have seen a user
delete something in a mapped drive. If they can't see it, they can do
anything to it. This is not to say that if they know their stuff they
can't do something, but the average user won't go somewhere when they
don't have a drive letter to look at.

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
Of Dave Olender
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re: 8.0 drive letter / path change

Mr. Bruce: The short answer is Yes.

I think these days the more accepted standard is to use a UNC rather
than a drive letter ( \\yourservername\epicor ).

It's less prone to drive mapping changes. i.e. when installing the
Progress Client (used to setup ODBC on client stations) I used the
UNC \\yourservername\epicor\oe101b as the install directory.

In my opinion there is very little need for an actual drive mapping.
However I would be interested to hear what other think about this.

Great Question.

Dave Olender dolender@...
<mailto:dolender%40olenderconsulting.com>
<mailto:dolender%40olenderconsulting.com>

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> In 6.1 and below changing the networked drive letter was typically
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> for disaster. Is this true for 8.0 or 8.03?
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In 6.1 and below changing the networked drive letter was typically a recipe
for disaster. Is this true for 8.0 or 8.03?



Bruce Butler

<mailto:bbutler@...> bbutler@...





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Mr. Bruce: The short answer is Yes.

I think these days the more accepted standard is to use a UNC rather
than a drive letter ( \\yourservername\epicor ).

It's less prone to drive mapping changes. i.e. when installing the
Progress Client (used to setup ODBC on client stations) I used the
UNC \\yourservername\epicor\oe101b as the install directory.

In my opinion there is very little need for an actual drive mapping.
However I would be interested to hear what other think about this.

Great Question.

Dave Olender dolender@...




--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Butler" <bbutler@...> wrote:
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> In 6.1 and below changing the networked drive letter was typically
a recipe
> for disaster. Is this true for 8.0 or 8.03?
>
>
>
> Bruce Butler
>
> <mailto:bbutler@...> bbutler@...
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Using the UNC, you are less likely to have a user do something that
could be destructive. I don't know how many times I have seen a user
delete something in a mapped drive. If they can't see it, they can do
anything to it. This is not to say that if they know their stuff they
can't do something, but the average user won't go somewhere when they
don't have a drive letter to look at.



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Dave Olender
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: 8.0 drive letter / path change



Mr. Bruce: The short answer is Yes.

I think these days the more accepted standard is to use a UNC rather
than a drive letter ( \\yourservername\epicor ).

It's less prone to drive mapping changes. i.e. when installing the
Progress Client (used to setup ODBC on client stations) I used the
UNC \\yourservername\epicor\oe101b as the install directory.

In my opinion there is very little need for an actual drive mapping.
However I would be interested to hear what other think about this.

Great Question.

Dave Olender dolender@...
<mailto:dolender%40olenderconsulting.com>

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Bruce Butler" <bbutler@...> wrote:
>
> In 6.1 and below changing the networked drive letter was typically
a recipe
> for disaster. Is this true for 8.0 or 8.03?
>
>
>
> Bruce Butler
>
> <mailto:bbutler@...> bbutler@...
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