User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

Using Shared Directories

Viewing Shared Directories

The ﬁrst step in using a shared directory is seeing which directories and

other resources are available to you. To see which shared resources are

available to you, the Workstation service must be running, and you must be

logged on to the network. For information about starting the Workstation

service and logging on, see Chapter 1, “Getting Started with LAN Manager

Enhanced.”

Once you start the Workstation service and log on to the network, you can

use the LAN Manager screen to display a list of the servers you can view.

This list includes servers in your workstation domain, your logon domain,

and other domains (if any) speciﬁed in the LANMAN.INI ﬁle. The

LANMAN.INI ﬁle is an initialization ﬁle that determines default settings for

workstations on a network.

To view shared directories

1 In the list of servers on the LAN Manager screen, set the current focus on the

server that has shared directories you want to view.

2 From the View menu, choose Available resources.

The Resources Available at \\computername dialog box appears.

Shared directories are listed as Disk in the Type column.

3 Choose the Done button.