Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!qiclab!techbook!kenh
From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: need help with map root
Keywords: map
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.132717.14350@techbook.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 13:27:17 GMT
References: <5588@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Lines: 29

In article <5588@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> castillo@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Brian Anderson) writes:
>I've finished loading up the latest IPX and NETx files onto my network
>and now I'm wondering just how this map root feature works.  I am
>running:
>
>Novell Advanced Netware 2.15c
>IPX.COM rev. 3.01b
>NET3.com rev. E (also XMSNET3.COM rev. E)
>
>I got a copy of the latest improved utilities for the PUBLIC directory,
>so I think I have the right version of MAP.
>
>Mainly I want to use this feature because of a need to run MS Windows
>3.0 off the server, and I'd heard that one could sort-of solve the file
>manager network drive nightmare this way.

The syntax is MAP ROOT X:=FSname/VOLname:DIRname\SUBdirname
>
MS Windows works well in a Novell environment, provided you tell it you
are in a NW environment during setup.  That's a whole discussion itself tho.

Ken


-- 
******************************************************************************
* Ken Haynes, CNE                    | 1-900-PRO-HELP
* Technical Support Product Manager, 900 Support
* UUCP: {nosun, sequent, tessi} kenh@techbook