RE: windows drive letter mapping

Thanks, Charly.  I appreciate it!

I've always wondered what they meant by the saying:  "The more things
change, the more they stay the same"  ;-)

Jt


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Charly Jones
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:01 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: windows drive letter mapping - CAE



Well, let's see... I have a Microsoft operating system, I wonder
if they changed everything when they built Windows 2000?  If there
isn't a config.sys file, they probably have a completely new
mechanism for storing that information...

I searched my hard drive and found the following in:

     C:\WINNT\system32\config.NT

So they changed everything!  It is completely different!  They
used a brand new file name...  I'm guessing that when they
invent the next "real" operating system, they will find another
brand new way to implement the MS-DOS underpinnings that they have
built their fragile house of cards on top of...

REM Windows MS-DOS Startup File
REM
REM CONFIG.SYS vs CONFIG.NT
REM CONFIG.SYS is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM CONFIG.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.
REM
REM <SNIP></SNIP>
dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
files=40

Charly Jones
Geezer in Gig Harbor



>From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com>
>
>Dave:
>I thought the same thing, but could not find a CONFIG.SYS on the >machine
>in question, so there must be something else that is not >allowing all
>drives letters to be mapped.
>cjg
>
>
>Carl J. Galgano
>EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Shaw
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:52 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: windows drive letter mapping - CAE
>
>
>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
> >
> >
> > Carl J. Galgano
> > EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> > 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
> > Marietta, GA  30060
> > (770) 422-2995 - voice
> > (419) 730-8212 - fax
> > mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
> > http://www.ediconsulting.com
> > AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
> > Implementation
> > http://www.icecreamovernight.com
> > Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight
> >
> > "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw
>
>
>
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