• the command for mapping a drive is fairly straightforward:

    NET USE G: \\UNCPath\d$\ShareFolder /user:domain\username password

    after that is done, i think you might also need to add the trace flag 1807 to allow the SQL instance to use network paths?

    Lowell


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