Question about network drives with Octave on Windows 7

[jy . bourmaud]

Hello,

I am currently trying GNU Octave 3.8.1 on Windows 7 (setup configured for 
i686-w64-mingw32). I got the setup from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/

I am a newby in Octave, so my question may sound rather stupid. Sorry in 
advance : when I simply try to change directory within “C:”, it works, but I 
cannot access the network drives using the same way (e.g. cd 'V:' for V which 
is a remote disk located somewhere on a server).

Am I doing something wrong, or is it just impossible to use remote disks ? I 
used to use another flavor of Octave for Windows (Octave Workshop), and it 
worked on that platform, so I am a bit confused.

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Best regards.
JY Bourmaud.