Title: Network paths
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Network paths

 *  [mik256](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mik256/)
 * (@mik256)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-paths/)
 * Hello,
    this plugin is really good. I can see whole c:\ (running on Windows).
   How can I use a network path or access different server? Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [Dion Hulse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dd32/)
 * (@dd32)
 * Meta Developer
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-paths/#post-5394122)
 * Hi,
 * This plugin only supports accessing the drive it’s installed on under Windows
   platforms, other fixed disks are not supported at present.
 * Due to Permission limitations, the PHP cannot see Network or Mapped drives on
   the server anyway normally, so this isn’t high on the priority of tasks that 
   need working on.
 *  Thread Starter [mik256](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mik256/)
 * (@mik256)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-paths/#post-5394202)
 * Hi dev, thanks for your quick reply!
    Hm.. but still is there some workaround
   maybe, to make php see mapped drives? I don’t mind setting permissions somehow.
   Also, I wonder how this plugin accesses files, via ftp? Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Dion Hulse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dd32/)
 * (@dd32)
 * Meta Developer
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-paths/#post-5394213)
 * IIRC there’s a Registry hack to make mapped drives available to the PHP user 
   able to create mapped drives (PHP Normally runs in a much lower privilege account
   in a separate process).
 * This plugin only uses direct file access for importing, no FTP/etc is used.
 * No extra windows support will be added past what it already supports.
 * You could probably use NTFS Junctions to mount a 2nd fixed drive somewhere the
   plugin can access (ie. making d:\ available at c:\d_drive\) but that won’t work
   with mapped network shares.

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