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Explanation Of Drive Mappings And Directories |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: Drives, Directories, and Mapping Purpose: To clarify the concept of Drives, Directories, Subdirectories, Assigned Drives, and mapped drives Discussion: Shared Hard Drive Networks: This is a NETBIOS type of network where each workstation can access the hard disks of other workstations. LANtastic uses this type of configuration or topology. A program is loaded on a subdirectory of a workstation and that directory is then substituted with a drive letter: SUBST W: C:\WP51. Then through the network software the drive is made available to the various workstations. In this case the mapping takes place through the SUBST command. File Server Networks: This type of network allows the workstations to access only the disks of the file server. Novell: The MAP command performs the function of "mapping" a physical drive, volume, directory, or subdirectory as a drive letter. Normally, The first five letters in the alphabet are reserved for local drives. A normal setup would be A: and B: are floppy drives, C: and D: are hard drives, and E: is a RAM drive. The F: drive is the default network drive. F: through Z: are then available for use for mapping network drives. Novell has two types of drive mappings: logical and search. A logical drive is the normal setup wherein a directory is called a drive letter although the complete path may be displayed. A search drive is the same as a logical drive except that it also has the features of the DOS PATH characteristics. The search drive capability makes it possible to execute programs from the users data directory. This enables the program directory such as \WP51 to have rights restrictions yet allow the users to perform their work. While the directory structure for a local hard drive is physical drive, directory, subdirectory,..., the Novell structure is file server, volume, directory, subdirectory. For example: W:\WP51 is servername/volume:wp51 Non-Novell: The program directory on the file server is normally mapped out as a subdirectory of the physical drive. The SUBST command maps out the directory as a drive letter, e.g., W: is really C:\WP51 on the file server. |
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