Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!YALEMED!BEEBE From: BEEBE@YALEMED.BITNET (Rick Beebe) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: RE: What drive is assigned to the LOGIN Directory? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 21:46:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 40 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: IN%"NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET" >When I execute IPX and NET3 on a true blue AT, the network drive >is F:. If I change to drive f:, I am in the LOGIN directory. > >When I execute IPX and NET4 on a PS/2, I must change to H: to get the >LOGIN directory. > >I would like everyone to have to go to the F: drive in order to login. >This makes programs and instructions machine independent. The PS/2 >has device drivers for extended memory and virtual disk. The AT does not. > >How does Netware shell determine which drive to assign to the network? >SFT Netware Version 2.15A, Server is IBM PS/2 Model 80. Thanks. > >Kevin Butler, Programmer/Analyst, Computer Based Education, Univ. of Akron. Netware uses the next available, non-reserved-by-DOS drive. On most machines, DOS reserves drives a: - e:, hence netware comes up with drive f: My guess is that your virtual disks are taking drives f: and g: _OR_ there is a "lastdrive=g:" in the config.sys file. There are a couple of ways around this. 1) put "lastdrive=g:" in the config.sys of your AT's. That will make netware start with H: on those machines as well. The other way is to put the command "DRIVE H:" in the system login script. That forces the current drive to be H: instead of F: The first one is the more useful if you have automatic login batch files, because netware will start with H: on all machines. It's a little harder to implement, because you have to modify all the machines' config.sys files. The second one is a one-shot change, but it doesn't help the machines _before_ they actually log in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566 ***** ***** ***** * * Biomedical Computing Unit * * * ** * Yale University School of Medicine * * *** * * * 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06514 * * * * ** * * * * * BEEBE@YALEMED.BITNET beebe%biomed.decnet@venus.ycc.yale.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------