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We have an application that is regular deployment to live. Of course we try to test it as much as possible before. Many settings is stored in a ini-file

An example setting for a path

Live

AccountingSystemExportPath=\\org2000Appserv\UserFolders\Econet

Test

AccountingSystemExportPath=\\TestAppServ\Attracs\Peura\RC\UserFolders\Econet

So the problem is that setting is different in live and test. What I want is a way to map a servername (\\Org2000AppServ in this case) to a shared network folder.

So something like

SUBST Org2000AppServ \\TestAppServ\Attracs\Peura\RC

If above command work I could have same setting to live and test and testing would be more reliable. Any hints ?

berocoder
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  • It's still not clear what you're trying to achieve... Do you want to be able to switch quickly between Live and Test ini files and without restarting the app? – Ward - Trying Codidact Mar 29 '16 at 08:09

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If I understood you correctly, you want to be able to have an identical INI file (including, e.g., AccountingSystemExportPath=Org2000AppServ) for both LIVE and TEST environments, yet have the folder specified in the INI file (Org2000AppServ) point to a different location, depending whether it is a TEST or LIVE server. Is that correct?

If that is indeed the case, you can do that with MKLINK, e.g.:

LIVE Server: 

MKLINK /D C:\Org2000AppServ \\org2000Appserv\UserFolders\Econet

TEST Server:

MKLINK /D C:\Org2000AppServ \\TestAppServ\Attracs\Peura\RC\UserFolders\Econet

INI File on both servers:

AccountingSystemExportPath=C:\Org2000AppServ
Tomas Dabasinskas
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Using SUBST you can only mount the network shared drive to a physical drive which is having a physical drive letter. You requirement is to create a symbolic link for the path "TestAppServ\Attracs\Peura\RC" to "Org2000AppServ" and that is not possible using SUBST. Also I tried the requirement with nfs share and that too didn't work for the same.

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