Mapping Network drives with Vista - possible clues to problems.

["Rob Dixon" <robertsdixon@xxxxxxxxx>]

I reported under another thread that I could map a network drive to V5R3 but
not to V5R1 and from the responses that I received it seemed that no one
could map to V5R1.  I have been looking further into the problems and
thought it made sense to start a new thread.

Firstly, I then found that I could only map a network drive to V5R3
internally but I could not do this remotely.  So I used a network protocol
analyser to look at the traffic and found that Vista handled remote and
internal network drives very differently. The reason that the eternal
network dirve did not work was because Vista used HTTP for mapping the
external drive and found under V5R3 that I had not