TITLE:              CD-ROM Drive Configuration with NWL
DOCUMENT ID:        TID1200389
DOCUMENT REVISION:  2
DATE:               11Apr95
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NETWARE LITE V1.1

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CD-ROM Drive Configuration on a NetWare Lite Network

The following describes configuring your system to run with NetWare
Lite and a CD-ROM drive:

MSCDEX.EXE, the program provided from Microsoft to run a CD-ROM,
assigns a drive letter to the CD-ROM drive.  This can default to the
next available drive, or can be set to a specific drive with the /L:x
parameter, where x is the drive letter.  However, there are conflicts
between MSCDEX.EXE and CLIENT.EXE, a NetWare Lite file that is loaded
to make the machine a workstation.  A workaround some of these
conflicts is the following:

PREFERRED METHOD

1.   Load CLIENT.EXE then run MSCDEX.EXE

SECONDARY METHOD

This has been known to solve some but not necessarily all CD-ROM
drive and NetWare Lite issues.  If PREFERRED METHOD fails and the
workstation was a CLIENT-only, it must be made a SERVER-CLIENT.

1.   Run MSCDEX.EXE before CLIENT.EXE.  This will assign a drive
letter to the CD-ROM.

2.   After running CLIENT.EXE, that drive letter is no longer
directly accessible by DOS.  Create a network directory that looks at
the drive through the network.  For example, if the /L:G parameter
was used in MSCDEX to assign the G: drive to the CD-ROM drive, then
create a network directory (Enter NET; select SUPERVISE THE NETWORK;
select NETWORK DIRECTORIES; press <Insert>; select your SERVER), call
it something like CDROM, and assign the "Actual directory path" to be
the G: drive.

3.   Then, when you map a drive to the network directory CDROM, even
though the G: drive is not accessible directly, you can access it as
a mapped drive.

For example:  NET MAP J: CDROM would map J: to the CDROM network
directory that will look at the physical drive G: that MSCDEX.EXE
assigned as the CD-ROM drive.

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