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Bug 97345

Summary:	can't open/save projects on network drive
Product:	projects	Reporter:	neriksmoen <neriksmoen>
Component:	Generic Projects UI	Assignee:	Milan Kubec <mkubec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	NetBeans 5.5 - Network Drive is invalid path

Description neriksmoen 2007-03-07 06:31:22 UTC

I have Ubuntu installed on one machine with Samba enabled and NetBeans
installed, as well as NetBeans on a Windows XP machine. On XP, I am unable to
either save or open a Project file on a network drive because it appears that if
the location isn't a set drive (eg: C:, A:, etc) then it isn't valid. The
message I get is "Project Folder is not a valid path". 

I've searched around and it doesn't look likes it a very big issue at the moment
with other users, but having the ability to save to a networked drive would be a
big plus in cross-platform programming and testing, rather than saving the file,
copying to network drive, opening a "new project", then re-building and running
the code.

Comment 1 neriksmoen 2007-03-07 06:33:00 UTC

Created attachment 39232 [details]
NetBeans 5.5 - Network Drive is invalid path

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2007-03-07 09:59:36 UTC

Currently network drives must be mapped to drive letters, sorry.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 46813 ***