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- Readme file for 3.0 NetWare DOS Shell
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- WHEN RUNNING NETWARE V2.12 OR BELOW DO NOT RUN BINDFIX!
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- Extreme caution has been taken to insure compatibility with 2.0a servers on up
- to 3.0 servers. However, this product has not been released with any other
- product besides NetWare 386 v3.0. Novell will not support any fixes to the 3.0
- shell that are not NetWare 386 related.
- Reports of incompatibilities are, however welcome.
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- New Functionality:
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- "Fake Roots" ability has been added to simulate the SUBST command that
- DOS provides. The fake root feature will effectively set the root of a
- given drive to the directory designated by the user instead of to the
- volume. For example: before fake roots, a drive designation of F:\ would
- refer to the directory at the volume (ie. SERVER/SYS:) that the drive was
- mapped to. Now a user may designate the root to this drive to be SERVER/
- SYS:USERS/ME. Now when F:\ is used it refers to SERVER/SYS:USER/ME. This
- is most helpful for programs which wish to open files on the root of the
- current drive.
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- Map a drive to a fake root directory:
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- Some applications read files from and write files to the root directory.
- Since you do not want users working at the root level, you can map a
- drive to a fake root level, you can map a drive to a fake root directory
- where the user has rights.
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- Map to default drive
- (These instructions apply to the 3.0 MAP utility.)
- Suppose you are user TERRY on file server COUNT and your default drive is
- mapped as follows: F: = COUNT/SYS:HOME/TERRY You need access to the
- root directory to run one of your applications. Since you don't have
- rights to the root directory, map a fake root to TERRY where you do have
- all rights. Type MAP ROOT F:=HOME/TERRY The default file server and
- volume are COUNT/SYS, so you don't need to include them in the command.
- When you type MAP, you see a double space and slash after TERRY,
- indicating that the root directory for drive F is now TERRY:
- F: = COUNT/SYS:HOME/TERRY /
- Note: From a fake root, you cannot use the DOS CD command to return to
- the original root. To change the fake root back to the original root,
- remap the drive.
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- Map to another file server
- Suppose you are attached to filer servers COUNT and MKTG. Your default
- server is COUNT, but you need to create a fake root directory on server
- MKTG so you can use accounting applications. Your drive mapping to
- accounting applications on server MKTG is as follows: H: = MKTG/SYS:
- ACCT/TERRY From any drive on server COUNT, type MAP ROOT H: = MKTG/SYS:
- ACCT/TERRY Change to server MKTG and type MAP. You will see the
- following: H: = MKTG/SYS:ACCT/TERRY /
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- Map a new directory
- Suppose you are attached to files servers COUNT and MKTG. Your default
- server is COUNT, but you want to map a fake root to directory ACCT on
- file server MKTG. From any drive on server COUNT type MAP ROOT H: =
- MKTG/SYS:ACCT The fake root directory of drive H on server MKTG is now
- ACCT. Type MAP H: = MKTG/SYS:ACCT / The double space and slash after
- ACCT indicate that ACCT is the root directory for drive H. If you change
- to subdirectory TERRY, you see H: = MKTG/SYS:ACCT /TERRY
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- New Functionality:
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- Windows and other programs which display directories to be "clicked" on
- to change the current directory previously could not select directories
- "." and ".." when on a drive which was mapped to the server. This is
- because NetWare does not create these entries in its directory structure
- to conserve space. Now the shell returns these "directories" on
- appropriate FindFirst and FindNext directory searches.
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- New Functionality:
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- Additional parameters have been added to the SHELL.CFG file to allow
- users to specify additional configuration specifics. MAX CUR DIR LENGTH
- = ### allows the user to specify the maximum path length returned on a
- "Get Current Directory" call. DOS specifies 64 bytes as its length but
- NetWare has always returned 128 bytes in the past, breaking some programs
- which only provided a 64 byte buffer. The default for this parameter is
- 64. Also, the MAX PATH LENGTH = ### allows users to specify the maximum
- path lengths which will be valid for DOS calls. Again, DOS specifies a
- max path of 128 bytes being valid. Since NetWare paths can be up to 225
- bytes in length, the user can change this if needed. The default for
- this parameter is 255.
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- NOTE: As you implement the information in this Readme file, if you have any
- questions or have any problems implementing the Maproot utility,
- please route them via Easyplex to Grant Echols 76247,2232...
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