Supervising the Network

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Customizing the User Environment

Mapping Search Drives

For DOS and Windows workstations, you can map search drives to

directories that contain applications, executable ﬁles, and so forth. Then

users can execute those applications regardless of the directory in which

they are currently working.

A maximum of 16 NetWare search drives is allowed.

NOTE: Any object names in the login script should either be in the user’s context or should

have an alias point to the real object in another context. Any object referenced by a

name outside the user’s context will not work when that object is moved or renamed

or the context is renamed. See “Alias object” in Concepts.

When you map a search drive, use a search drive number (an S followed by

a number). This search drive number assigns the next available drive letter

to the mapping, starting with Z and working backwards through the English

alphabet.

The letter assigned to the search drive is put into the DOS path statement. If

you already have search drives in the path statement, the command MAP

S1:= will overwrite the ﬁrst one in the path. To prevent search drive

assignments from overriding existing DOS PATH letters, use the INSERT

option when assigning search drives. For example, type

MAP INS S16:=path

To ensure that users can access NetWare utilities, DOS directories, and

applications, we recommend you map search drives to these directories in

the following order:

• Map the first search drive (S1:) to the SYS:PUBLIC directory, which contains the

NetWare utilities for DOS and Windows workstations.

• Map the second search drive (S2:) to the DOS directory if users access DOS from

the network.

• Map the third and subsequent search drives (S3:, S4:, etc.) to directories

containing applications and the electronic NetWare documentation.

• If your users are running Windows from the network, map a search drive to the

Windows directory for the Windows group.