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Can someone help me with setting up a way to have two separated mapped drives but make it look like one?

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Basically I have two Synology servers with Creo files on each one. One server has files anyone can access whereas the other is only US citizens. I was told it was a pain for the engineers to have two mapped drives in Creo so I am curious of what solutions out there exist for this. i am not familiar with Creo myself I only manage the two servers where the engineers store there data. Please help!

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    Best answer by BenLoosli

    Windchill will solve your drive issue as the software will locate the files for the engineers.

    Setting up Windchill is not an easy task to do by yourself. even with trained Windchill consultants, it can take a few months to install, configure and train your users to use it. At a prior company, we used PTC as our consulting comany for the implementation for converting from Pro/Intralink to Windchill PDMLink and it took them 9 months! This was 10 years ago at PDMLink 7, so I know it is a little easier now. The 2 companies I have worked for since then have both been self-installed by the person I replaced. Lots of little things to clean up after that process. I heard the guy that did the install here spent over 1 year on the reading, documentation and configuration of the system. He just forgot to document what he had done while configuring the system and left no notes behind.

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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    August 6, 2015

    Are any of the files duplicated between the 2 servers?

    How often do the have to switch between the 2 servers?

    It is a little more difficult have multiple mapped drives, but not impossible. If the need to pull an assembly off one drive and its components off teh other drive, search paths will accomplish that.

    There are utilities that will 'combine' multiple drives into a single mapping, but at that point I think you would lose the US/non-US segregation.

    I am guessing you are not using a PDM system to manage your files. This would be easy with ACLs internal to teh vaulting of the files inside the PDM system.

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    rwilliams1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 6, 2015

    Currently no files are duplicated. I am not sure how often they switch between servers because we just implemented the new server today. After it was up I was asked my some of the engineers about how to set up a creo mapping config that is a default config that would be used whenever anyone is given access to the program and the files. They dont like the idea of having to mapping drives on a case to case scenario. They want to everyone's Creo installation at the same location and have the server dish out permissions. There are several people who need to switch between different programs (drives) during a days time that this would greatly help. I dont think they are using "search paths" or PDM neither of which I am familiar with. When you say PDM you mean Windchill right? Someone mentioned it a while back but I have never set something like that up. Is it difficult?

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    August 6, 2015

    Windchill will solve your drive issue as the software will locate the files for the engineers.

    Setting up Windchill is not an easy task to do by yourself. even with trained Windchill consultants, it can take a few months to install, configure and train your users to use it. At a prior company, we used PTC as our consulting comany for the implementation for converting from Pro/Intralink to Windchill PDMLink and it took them 9 months! This was 10 years ago at PDMLink 7, so I know it is a little easier now. The 2 companies I have worked for since then have both been self-installed by the person I replaced. Lots of little things to clean up after that process. I heard the guy that did the install here spent over 1 year on the reading, documentation and configuration of the system. He just forgot to document what he had done while configuring the system and left no notes behind.

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