Re: windows drive letter mapping - CAE

Carl,

I'm not sure about Windows 95, but I have a laptop running Windows 98 on
which I can map drives right up to Z. The CONFIG.SYS file is completely
empty (0 bytes) and there is no mention of drive letters in the
autoexec.bat. I would guess that it's somewhere in either control panels or
a registry setting perhaps, but I don't know where. Sorry I couldn't help,
but in Win98 it does not appear to either of the files that win 3x used to
use.

Thanks

Adam Driver
Kaz Computer Services
Sydney, Australia


Carl,

I may be dismembering this, but I think Win9x still does honor the
LASTDRIVE
directive.  Seems to me it goes in CONFIG.SYS - I'd try an experiment and
see what happens.  (I'd try it for you on this beast, if I had a network to
connect it to.  My ThinkPad is getting lonely, running stand-alone with
nothing but a dialup to the Internet for company...)

Dave Shaw
Simpsonville, SC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com>


> This may be slightly off topic, but it involves mapping a drive letter in
> CAE to a file share on the net server.  I have the netserver working fine
> and the share works fine, however I have one user who can only use
certain
> drive letters to map to the share.  (ie, drive letter F works fine, drive
> letter P says an invalid local device has been used).  There is nothing
else
> mapped to P.
> In old DOS/Win3.1 there was a stmt that went into either AUTOEXEC or
> CONFIG.SYS that said LASTDRIVE=M:.  Is there a similar setting for Win98.
I
> checked to see if there was an autoexec or config.sys that had this
> statement (since we all know that WIN98 still runs DOS), but could not
find
> anything.  Anyone have any ideas?
> cjg

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