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From: infocenter@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: MAP ROOT C:=?? / hiding local harddisk
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.161119.1696@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 29 Jun 91 15:11:19 GMT
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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Hi folks,

We are running 386 3.10 Rev.A on one
and                3.11 on a different network

these are student labs and the workstations have local 52MB HDDs as well as a 
3,5 and a 5,25 FDD. Only a couple of students need to use the harddisk. For the 
rest of them I would like to hide C:  (what they do not know about, they 
cannot mess up!). 

Well, I had an idea: I generated two paths on my server,   SYS:DUMMY/C . 
This subdir I filled with dummy entries as autoexec.bat, config.sys, 
/appl(.dir), /dat(.dir). The files just empty text files, the subdirs empty.
The users get only the right to see the stuff, that's it
Then I mapped SYS:DUMMY/C to C:, so they only see that camouflage stuff they 
cannot use for anything.

Well, I still think the idea of camouflaging was nice, I just do not succeed 
to construct something like MAP ROOT with that sucker of C:

Any idea how to solve the mapping problem ?
Any other idea to solve the problm at all ?  (no boot ROM, no DiskLock etc.!)


Any help deeply appreciated ...
thanx a lot to the experts ...........

bye ....................................................................  Didi

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