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Shorten the mapped drive for the application

I map the drive say Z.  However, the software does not know about Z so we have to type the entire UNC path.
Is there a way to shorten that?
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depends on what application we're talking about and how does it access the drive/path?
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Custom proprietary application.  It does not know Z, so I need to put \\servername\directory\etc\etc...


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so i neen to make a shorter path for that.  I cannot bypass other folders.
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I see.  any other way to do it without changing the file structure?
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so create a separate mapping?  or add another path to the existing share?
No, Add a new share. You can leave the old share. There is no problem having multiple shares on a server. You probably also don't need a separate mapping as the application can't access mapped drives anyway.
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New share to the existing Z mapping? How?
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You don't have to map anything. Just create a share on the server for the last \etc folder where you need the app to access the file. Then in the app use the UNC of this new share, like this \\servername\etc.
Got it!!  Sorry no coffee this morning.  Let me try that and let you know.
Umm looks like that data share is the level we usually need.  Under that are all the project folders, so you need different folders underneath data for each project.
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Okay so even if I share the last folder, say \etc and put this into the app \\servername\etc.  It will still see the follders underneath and use data from that structure level.  Correct?
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Make sense now.  The only thing is we have like 80 directories to update...