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From: bob@Armstrong.EDU (Bob Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: MS/DOS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.210253.2534@Armstrong.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 21:02:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.192003.18195@keinstr.uucp> <1991Jun25.203522.27336@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991Jun25.203522.27336@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dysart@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mitchell D Dysart) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.192003.18195@keinstr.uucp> brinich@keinstr.UUCP (Mark Brinich) writes:
>>I'd like to know why Novell wants you to put a seperate directory on your file
>>server for every flavor of DOS you're running with all the DOS system files.  I
>>don't know how many versions we're running here, but it's probably around 5-10.
>>Since none of our workstations are diskless, I don't see why I need to keep
>>this stuff hanging around on our fileserver.  Any input on this would be 
>>appreciated(e-mail will suffice).........mcb

I believe this is only nescessary if you want DOS files accessed from the file 
server.  I set up my system login script to map a search drive to DOS files for
everyone.  That way all my diskless systems work.  Then I create a group for
machines with local hard disks that have DOS files local.  I can then change
any machine from local DOS to file server by moving them to that group.  My
system login script has a line like 
"If member of HDBIN then begin
	map s2:=c:\bin
	other useful changes
end"
This remaps the search drive I mapped previously to the local DOS files.  Also
I run only one version of DOS for diskless machines.  This way I only have one
DOS directory on the server.
>
>Please respond by posting to the newsgroup instead of just e-mail.  I'm
>also interested in this topic.
>-- 
>
>Mitch Dysart
>dysart@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

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