NetWare Client for DOS and MS Windows User Guide

8-8
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.