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- From: root@cibbs.UUCP (Mark Buckaway)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Network drive identification/ MOUNT command for DOS
- Message-ID: <eTPNwB2w165w@cibbs.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 12:16:01 EST
- Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)
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- UNIX sysadmins know about the MOUNT command to add file systems to thier unix
- box. I would like to do something similar for DOS. That is add a "file system"
- (ie. another drive) as a directory off my main drive. DOS includes the JOIN
- command but this is incompatible with network drives. I am running Netware
- Lite V1.1.
-
- Some time back, I saw articles that were mentioning that it was possible to
- change the "device descriptor" (please forgive me if this is NOT the correct
- term) to make a network drive LOOK like a hard drive to DOS. My idea
- encorporates writing a same utility to change the network drive "into" a hard
- drive, spawn to the JOIN command, and switch the drive back to a network
- drive. If it is possible to fool DOS in this manner, this should work.
-
- All reference material I have says nothing of how to determine if a network
- drive is such and not a hard drive. Does anyone know who to do this? Or have
- code segments either in assembly or C on how to poke around memory for these
- items. If all else fails, anyone know of a good reference book I can RTFM?
-
- I am very knowledgible in C, know something about assembly. Any help would be
- appreciated.
-
- Mark
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