HP CD-ROM Server User's Guide

Mounting or Mapping Network Drives 4-21
Example (CD-ROM access):
If your CD-ROM server LAN hardware address is
0060b0cd000b, and you want to map a CD-ROM named
cd_12345 to drive G, type:
2. To make the connections permanent, edit your autoexec.bat
file to include your net use commands.
Notes:
❏
If you are using DOS within Windows 95 or Windows NT
4.0, and you wish to access files or directory names longer
than 8 characters, you will need to precede these long names
with a quote mark (
“
). For example, use the
cd
(change
directory) command to change to the directory called
Product Information:
❏
Windows NT gives the additional facility of using the *
wildcard. For example a quick way of changing to the
Product Information directory would be:
UNIX (NFS)
Before you begin
You will need root privileges to mount the CD-ROM server.
On UNIX systems the CD-ROM server is accessed using NFS.
To access the server, you will have to do the following:
1. Create a directory for the CD-ROM server.
Example:
net use G: \\HPcd000b\cd_12345
G:\HPcd000b\CD\>cd “PRODUCT INFORMATION
G:\HPcd000b\CD\>cd “PRODUCT*
mkdir <directory>
mkdir /hpcd
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