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From: u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Autoexec dies during remote boot with packet driver?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.092158.1733@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 23:21:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.153110.9114@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: The University of Melbourne
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> We are trying to use the packet driver (version 7.6) for the western digital
> 8003eb board. If we boot from the floppy in which we did the dosgen then 
> everything works fine. Using the remote reset, the autoexec exits after net3
> and won't do the following login command. Everything else works fine after that.
> I've tried several hundred variations on this theme, but not the right one. 
> Can anyone help?

We've found this too, and I assumed it was a Novell "feature".

One way round it is to copy the autoexec.bat file into your login directory.
Things are more complicated if you need different autoexec.bat files for
different machines.  Does anyone have a better way?

Peter Summers