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From: jlamb@npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb)
Subject: Re: Windows on diskless workstations
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.005716.27525@npd.Novell.COM>
Reply-To: jlamb@seneca.npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb)
Organization: Novell Inc., Provo
References: <8621@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr17.130557.14349@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Apr18.015949.26790@npd.Novell.COM> <1991Apr20.034704.28236@netcom.COM> <1991Apr21.164528.12434@pbs.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 00:57:16 GMT

In article <1991Apr21.164528.12434@pbs.org> rfutscher@pbs.org writes:
>
> 
>> 
>>Only catch is this. You can't tell Windows not to use a swap file. And if it
>>comes down to using a network workstation's resources for swapping, this is
>>the preferred order..... 1) Local Hard Drive.. 2) Local RAM Drive..
>>3) NW386 Server drive.. 4) NW286 Server drive.. 5) Version 1.01 of Windows..
>> 
>
>
>"If you are useing a Novell network, do not set the temporary swap file
>to a net drive. Unlike other network vendors, Novell does not license
>Microsoft"s MSNet Redirector module. Because Novell is not MSNet
>Redictor compatible, thr root directory of a Novell network drive
>is also the root directory of the server.  What this means is that
>if more than one user tries to run windows in 386 enhanced mode
>with their temporary swap file set to the same Novell drive, their
>systems will hang because the swap files will try to be the same
>name on the root directory of the server."
>
>page 380 of Windows 3 Power Tools.  A must read book for all 
>windows power users.
>
>Robert Futscher    rfutscher@pbs.org

As a few netters have pointed out this is incorrect for users of the
NetWare shells which supply fake root capabilities. (3.0 and later)

Jason
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       Jason Lamb                         jlamb@Sed.Novell.COM
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