TITLE:              Mapping to NWDOS 7 on a NetWare Server
DOCUMENT ID:        TID21698
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               03AUG94
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
Novell DOS 7

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ISSUE:

While VLMs or newer versions of LOGIN may handle the mapping-to-DOS
situation smoothly, many customers have had trouble getting users
mapped to the correct DOS directory on a NetWare server if the user
is booting Novell DOS (or DR DOS) and using NETx.

This issue comes about because NETx and some older versions of LOGIN
do not know how to check for these versions of DOS. Standard DOS
version checks on Novell DOS 7 reports MS DOS 6.00 (unless SETVER
reports differently). Under DR DOS, DOS 3.31 is reported. This is
necessary in order to satisfy programs which insist on seeing certain
versions of DOS.

There are other calls that can be made to see whether NWDOS or DRDOS
are actually present. Newer versions of LOGIN and/or the VLMs seem to
make use of these other calls. In addition to these other calls,
Novell DOS 7 and DRDOS 6.0 have environment variables called OS and
VER. By using the following command in your login script, you can map
either to ".....\NWDOS\7" or to "....\DRDOS\6.0":

MAP S16:=server\volume:subdir\%<OS>\%<VER>

Where "server" is the NetWare server name, "volume" is the volume on
the server where the DOS files are kept, and "subdir" is the name of
the subdirectory (or subdirectories, separated by back-slashes) under
which your various DOS directories are located.

Note that this line won't necessarily work with MS DOS/PC DOS,
because they do not set those variables. Therefore, you may want to
use the following just before the MAP command, in order to insure it
works regardless of operating system version:

IF <OS> <> "NWDOS" AND <OS> <> "DRDOS" THEN BEGIN
     DOS SET OS="%OS"
     DOS SET VER="%OS_VERSION"
END

See the Novell DOS manual or DOSBOOK for more information on special
environment variables unique to Novell DOS. See the NetWare
Installation manual for more information on login script commands.

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