Windows drive mapping conventions

On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Craig White wrote:

> The users home directory would likely be set up by policy but it is
> only
> writable by the logged in user so putting a public directory within a
> home directory is non-sensical.

The idea of the public directory is that you chmod on it to make it
world readable. Then inside the public directory you chmod on the drop
box to make it world writable but only owner readable. I've seen many
Webdav accounts set up this way. People seem to get it. I'm not sure it
works with the shared and home drive setup though.
>
> Drop box directory inside a public directory makes sense.
>
> Many hardware manufacturers use the R: & S: drives for CD, CD-R, DVD
> drives so while it might sound good, it may require 're-assigning' the
> letter of the drive on some machines.

There had to be a reason to avoid S: for shared. I thought the
convection was that optical drives are G: and H:.