Setting Up and Managing Network Drives
Using NetWare Utilities to Set Up and Manage Drive Mappings
To ensure that you can access NetWare utilities, DOS directories, and applications, you should map search drives to the following directories in the order given:
•Map the first search drive (S1:) to the SYS:PUBLIC directory, which contains the NetWare utilities for DOS and MS Windows client workstations.
•Map the second search drive (S2:) to the DOS directory if you access DOS from the network.
•Map the third and subsequent search drives (S3:, S4:, etc.) to directories containing network applications, project files and frequently used data directories.
•If you are running MS Windows from the network, map a search drive to the MS Windows directory for the MS Windows group.
To avoid inadvertently changing the order of any search drives that must be mapped to a specific drive letter, you can map all remaining search drives with the number S16: or use INS to insert a drive mapping.
If you have an application that requires a particular drive letter, you can use the following command to map the search drive:
MAP S16:=drive:=path
If you map a search drive using a number already assigned to a search drive, NetWare makes the old search drive a network drive.
Assigning Drives to Directory Map Objects (NetWare 4 only)
Another way to map a drive to a directory is to create a Directory Map object that points to the directory. Then, if you move the directory, you need to change only the Directory Map object rather than all assignments to that directory.
For example, to map a search drive to a Directory Map object whose Distinguished Name is APPL.SALES_LA.HP_US, type
MAP S2:=.APPL.SALES_LA.HP_US <Enter>
In the above example, the Directory Map object’s name begins with a period, which indicates that the drive is mapped to the drive root.
If your User object exists in the same context as the Directory Map object, such as the example SALES_LA.HP_US, the MAP command does not have to specify the Distinguished Name for the Directory Map object.