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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Novell Drive Connect Feature
Summary: use "map root"
Keywords: Novell, SUBST
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.214532.5077@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 21:45:32 GMT
References: <10297@life.ai.mit.edu> <10298@life.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: The World
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In article <10298@life.ai.mit.edu> rpk@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski) writes:
>There's a cool feature of the Drive Connect command (from File
>Manager) that I can't seem to reproduce from DOS, which is too bad.
>That is, you can *really* map a drive to a subdirectory on a Novell
>volume.  So even if map drive X to a subdirectory, I can't do this:
>
>	X:
>	CD ..
>
>I consider this a feature; it allows you to hide the position of a
>hierarchy of directories.  It's like letting SUBST work on network
>drives.
>
>However, there doesn't seem to be any Novell command line incantation
>that produces the same result.  What exactly is or is not going on
>here ?

use the command "map" with the option "root"

ie:

map root x:=server\xx:usr\mydir

This will set "mydir" as the "fake root" of the mapped disk x.  You will need
updates to ipx, net3, login and map to support this.  (Though if you are
already doing it from within windows, I presume you have the updates.)
-- 
Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com