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Novell Network - Drive Mappings Changing
DocumentID: 633676
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:03:22 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A user is on a Novell network and has a drive mapped to J:\USERS\SALLY. From WordPerfect, the user enters List Files (F5, Enter). He then highlights Current Directory, presses Enter, types J:\USERS\DAVID, and presses Enter again. The user receives a directory listing for J:\USERS\DAVID. If the user exits to a DOS prompt, J:\USERS\SALLY is no longer a drive mapping. Instead, J:\USERS\DAVID has now become the drive mapping for J:. Solutions: Novell works this way when a user uses drive mappings. When WP is using List Files, the program makes DOS and Novell calls to bring up those file listings. Highlighting Current Directory or using the Other Directory option causes the drive mappings to change.

Drive mappings will also change when a user specifies J:\USERS\DAVID (as an example) instead of J:\USERS\SALLY under Documents (in WP) or Drawings/Slide Shows (Presentations) in Location of Files. This information is true for any WPCorp program that allows a user to specify a default List Files directory in Location of Files. The same problem happens if the user specifies a graphics directory in Location of Files, creates a graphics image, and later retrieves the graphic.

Since the original customer wanted the user's home directory always to be the same (i.e., J:\USERS\SALLY), he wrote a simple batch file that changed the directory back to SALLY every time the user exited the program.

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