Map a drive letter in Vista to a subdirectory on a share in Linux

AFAIK you can't map to sub-folders even on windows shares - only to the share itself

Can I retreact the last bit - of course you can map to a sub-folder in a share in Windows - I map my users folders like this all the time . I cant map to a sub-folder on a Linux share either however - just tried -  it so its likely that this just isn't possible... unless anyone else knows different.

So much for Vista's hyped "improved security". As mzamarripa rightly points out, this is a "security feature" although I can't imagine why. Like sirbounty suggested, opening a DOS box and entering "net use k: \\server\home\share\subdir" creates the mapping without admin password!

Having toyed with Vista for two days my recommendation to all business users is to wait at least until 2008 and Service Pack 1:
- Most drivers for peripherals are still missing (I can't connect my HP printers, Cannon scanner, Creative webcam and Trust Skype box right now)
- Lots of software is still not Vista-ready and requires major security-tweaking to get it working.
- Without really high-end hardware you can't comfortably work with Vista (1GB ram and 2Ghz processor really are a must)
- Very little expertise available. Even for trivial questions you have to scour the net (like this question for instance, or where to find the "run"  option that was readily available under WinXP...)

The only two things I really like about Vista are the lightning fast hybernate function and the visual effects. Hardly reason enough to shell out  the extra $$. To me it looks like M$ released Vista as a Beta version for which you have to pay.

have fun!
Michiel

KCTS:
Yes you can map a drive letter in Windows XP to a subdirectory of a share on a Linux box. I do it all the time. And as explained above, apparently you can also do it in Vista from the command line.
regards,
Michiel