Question about "creating a share" feature.

[Jim]

In winfile, there is the possibility of having many windows open to many drives. There is also an icon for highlighting a directory and sharing it directly. Does anyone know if this application or ANY other explorer replacement has at least the "share this directory" feature?

BTW, I still use winfile with fmstepup as my standard file manager.

[SvA]

In winfile, there is the possibility of having many windows open to many drives.

In Servant Salamander you can have as many windows on as many directories of any and all your drives open at any time. no restriction.

There is also an icon for highlighting a directory and sharing it directly. Does anyone know if this application or ANY other explorer replacement has at least the "share this directory" feature?

Use the directory's context menu (supported by about any file manager there is). I don't know, what the entry is called on an English Windows (Something like 'sharring and security...'), on my German one it's called 'Freigabe und Sicherheit...'.

If you want to have it on a toolbar button, you can write a script which askes you for the share's name and maybe more parameters and create it using NET SHARE ...

BTW, I still use winfile with fmstepup as my standard file manager.

Try Servant Salamander. It compares to fileman like a ball-pen to a chisel.
And it's in active development.

[Jim]

I appreciate the response and I will keep working with servant salamander. I am aware of the net share command, but it only works on the local machine. I am referring to mapped drives on remote servers all over the corporate network and for these, the only command line tool available is rmtshare.exe or a .vb, .net or some other scripting language. If you've seen winfile, it has a hand icon which dynamically selects the highlighted directory, and uses the unc path as would be needed on the command line. I think I'll have to find the file tool which best enables selectable scripts, into which I may be able to pass some parameters from the tool, but I'll have to find out how to grab things like the directory and unc path from the tool.