A Simple way to copy?

[ozrica]

I have a user who is very bad when it comes to backing up. He is afraid of his CDRW drive and software.........I think it's comes from not being able to program his VCR!!!!!

I thought I could write a simple batch file that copied various files accross the network so I could back them up.

The user could double click an icon and off it would go.

The problem I am having is transfering it across the network.

If I type:

xcopy c:\*.* //network/blah blah etc.

it cannot understand what the //network part is.

Is there a way to do this in a dos window under w98SE or do I need 3rd party software.

Any help will be appreciated as always.

Thanks

Stuart

[MacGyver]

Use backslashes instead of forward slashes like so:

\\network\blah\blah

Windows doesn't understand forward slashes as part of a path.

If that doesn't work, you will have to map a drive letter to the root drive(s) of the network

[Stalemate]

You will probably need to use the NET USE command to "map" a logical drive to a network share.

NET USE H: \\DESTINATION\SHARED_FOLDER

In this example, SHARED_FOLDER on the PC named DESTINATION will be mapped as being drive H: on your local PC.

[Sowulo]

[quote]Originally posted by MacGyver:
<strong>Use backslashes instead of forward slashes like so:

\\network\blah\blah

Windows doesn't understand forward slashes as part of a path.

If that doesn't work, you will have to map a drive letter to the root drive(s) of the network</strong><hr></blockquote>

I just tested this method copying from a W2K system to a W98 system and it worked just fine.... :cool:

[ozrica]

Thanks for all your replies.

I'll try these and post back if I still have problems.

Stuart