(Windows NT, W2K, XP & Windows 2003)Ĭreate a very small partition on the server for the sole purpose of hosting the small file that the NETDIR setting will create. \EclipseData is the H: drive, it will also be seen as a drive on the server (the actual drive letter doesn't matter) So if you have shared the folder C:\OurData\EclipseData such that for the workstations. So just as your workstation sees then share as a drive, so does the server. Map a virtual drive on your server to the same share that all workstations running Eclipse use. To there are two ways to achieve this, but Windows 2003 only allows you to use one of them because of the restrictions that Microsoft introduced on services using mapped drives. This creates a difficulty for because the NETDIR setting for the BDE Administrator needs to be set in such a way that the server sees the path here with the same path structure as the workstations that run Eclipse, although the same drive letter is not required. Since the release of Windows 2003 (and XP sp2) services cannot refer to mapped drives in order to access files on a machine or network (see full details here).
