[Building Sakai] Resources-within-Filesystem on Windows -- howto?

[will at serensoft.com]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Adams, David <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:
> Does it work if you give the C: path? Assuming subst works like network
> drives, the mapped drive exists only in a user session. If Tomcat is
> running as a service, it may not be able to see drives you've mapped
> with subst. If you ran subst as a different user than Tomcat is running
> as, then it definitely won't be able to see it.

A ha! It does work on the C: drive.

> If you're planning on using a network share to host the content, then
> mapping drives won't be an option unless you plan to log in and run
> tomcat by hand, so you'll need to be testing using the
> \\servername\sharename format anyway (you could share the folder from
> the local machine and test it that way). Of course, then you'll run into
> cross-machine authorization complexities...

Yes indeedy. This is a great tip, thanks, Dave! \\off\to\see\the\wizard!


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