Re: problems with word mail merge

Gerhard du Toit <gdt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:27:28 +0200

Hi Eric
Do not map ro \\192...... but to \\servername\.... that will work.

maping basically just mean t:\ points to \\servername\ so you can easaly 

map to the server name instead.

Regards
Gerhard

eric wrote:

Thanks for you answer Gerhard.

My problem occure when I use a mapped network drive (like X:\ mapped 

on \\servername\whatever).

When using the UNC path (like \\servername\whatever with no IP 

address), all is working.

For my users, I would prefer to use the mapped drive because they 

don't know the UNC path. And Word is using the mapped network drive ! 

I have to modify all mail merging using X:\ by \\servername\whatever. 

For my 600 users...

derreck.

Gerhard du Toit a écrit :

Remember that office see connections such as //192.168.1.1/whatever 

as insecure and the document may not open. I have seen this on access.

Try to mount to the computer name such as //servername/whatever this 

could be the problem

Gerhard

eric wrote:

Hi list.

I've got a samba 3.0.25b server with windows XP clients. I meet 

trouble with mail merging on Word 2003.

When this document is opened, Word says that it can't open the data 

source (X:\path), when the data source is on a mapped drive. But 

when the data source is on the UNC path everything is ok.

Did I missed something in my smb.conf ?

Thanks !
Derreck.

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