Re: Re: Central HOSTS file?

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an interesting idea.  I had never thought of using shortcuts to
simulate folders on a single drive.
Thanks, Phil.

Mal



Phil Harris wrote:

>
> > The single-drive-from-multiple disks thing sounds
> > interesting, but only if it's an improvement of the existing
> > dynamic drive stuff.
> > The chances of a failure with multiple disks are of course
> > higher, so if it can survive a disk failure (i.e. you only
> > lose what's on the failed disk), that might be a viable
> > solution for people like me who want to serve media and have
> > it all backed up on DVD already.
> >
> > Mal
>
> You can already do this anyway and it's what I do on a Mac with a
small
> script ... No reason why it shouldn't be just as possible on a PC.
Just
> create a single shared "Movies" directory and in there put
shortcuts
> to each
> individual movies directory - I use a shell script to do this for me
under
> OSX but there's no reason you couldn't put together something similar
in
> windows I assume.
>
> Phil
>
>