Net View command?

[John Prophet]

I am trying to get a grip on these commands.

Can I actually browse from DOS?

I am on a W98se machine and I have an xp machine with My Documents shared.

So I can see that I can go "Net View \\computername" and it shows me that the My Documents folder is shared....but can I then browse INTO that folder to see whats in it??


In looking at the Net Use command...am I to understand that from this machine I can make a folder shared on the other machine??? Surely I am reading that wrong, lol.

Does the Net Share command even work on W98 machines? Where DOES it work? When I try it, it says it is an unknown command.


Thanks, JP

[meese]

John,

The commands below are part of a batch file I run from client pc's to copy data to the server. It works on any pc (win98 or w2K). The first line creates a mapped drive O: on the client which points to the folder on the server you want to copy to. The xcopy line copies the data folder from the client to the mapped drive. The last line removes the mapped drive.

Anyway the NET USE commands should work across OS's. I find NET USE very useful. I use it all the time.


NET USE O: \\file_server\backup
c:
cd\
xcopy data O: /D /E /Y
NET USE O: /DELETE