Drive Mappings with NWShareHandles and RestoreDrives (101724)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Windows 3.11
- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1
This article was previously published under Q101724 SUMMARY
If you are using Novell NetWare in conjunction with Microsoft Windows
and you try to change drive mappings inside a virtual machine (VM),
the condition of those drive mappings after you exit the VM depends on
two Novell Netware switches: NWshareHandles and RestoreDrives.
Both these switches are set in the 386 Enhanced section of the Network
dialog box in Control Panel. Changing these settings modifies the
following lines in the NetWare section of the SYSTEM.INI file:
NWShareHandles= <true> or <false>
RestoreDrives= <true> or <false>
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The default setting of NWShareHandles=FALSE causes NetWare to behave
with the Inherited-visibility method. The optional setting of
NWShareHandles=True makes the 386 enhanced mode NetWare driver use the
Global-visibility method instead.
The NWShareHandles setting is a function of the Novell redirector.With
this setting set to False, new virtual machines (VMs) inherit mappings
from the MS-DOS environment. However, if you add a mapping, it
appears only in that VM. Base mappings remain untouched and new ones
in each VM are unique.
When you exit Windows and RestoreDrives is set to True, Windows
restores your mappings to the way things were before you started
Windows. This is important because mappings change as you use them,
especially if they are not map rooted.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/14/2003 |
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| Keywords: | KB101724 |
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