Supervising the Network

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Creating Menus

Making Menus Work

Now that you have working menus, you must make them available to your

users. Following is a list of rules for usage.

• You must create a search drive to the directory where the menu files exist. Search

mappings can be created in container, profile, or user login scripts.

• Users must have at least Read and File Scan rights to the directory where the

menu files exist.

• NMENU uses temporary files. You must create a permanent drive mapping

assignment to a directory where the temporary files will be used.

• Users must have at least Read, File Scan, Write, Create, and Erase rights to the

directory where the temporary files will be stored.

You can simplify management of the menu system by keeping all menu ﬁles

in one place, such as SYS:MENUS. Menus are even easier to manage if the

temporary ﬁles are kept in one place, such as SYS:MENUS\TEMP.

Setting Up the User Environment

If you are storing users’ temporary ﬁles in a network directory, place the

following commands in the login script:

SET S_FILEDIR=

SET S_FILE=

For example, if you have created a subdirectory called TEMP under a

MENUS directory, you would type

SET S_FILEDIR=”Z:\\MENUS\\TEMP\\”

SET S_FILE=“%STATION”

These commands point to the directory where temporary ﬁles are stored and

create unique ﬁles in the temporary directory for each workstation ID

number. The trailing backslash on the S_FILEDIR path is required.