Setting Up and Managing Network Drives

Using NetWare Utilities to Set Up and Manage Drive Mappings

Using NetWare Utilities to Set Up and Manage Drive Mappings

NetWare provides you with the following three utilities to set up and manage network drives and search drives for each client workstation in your network:

The MAP Utility

A DOS text utility available in all version of NetWare.

The NetWare User Tools for DOS (the NETUSER Utility) A DOS menu utility available only in NetWare 4 software.

The NetWare User Tools for MS Windows (the NWUSER.EXE Program)

An MS Windows graphical utility available in the NetWare Client Kits for DOS and MS Windows, and in NetWare 3.12 and NetWare 4™ software.

For online help and information on available options, use the /? or /H parameter with text utilities and the F1 key with menu and graphical utilities.

Prerequisites

Before you can use any of the drive mapping utilities, your client workstation requires the following:

A physical connection to the network

Novell DOS™, DR DOS®, PC-DOS, or MS-DOS loaded and running

(Conditional: if using MS Windows) A copy of MS Windows 3.x or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installed and running

The NetWare Client files loaded and running

See Chapter 5, “Installing or Upgrading NetWare Client Software,” on page 97 for more information.

A connection to the network

See Chapter 8, “Logging In from a NetWare Client Workstation,” on page 189 for more information.

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