TITLE:              Mapping Over The C: or CD-ROM Drive Letter
DOCUMENT ID:        TID1201868
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               05AUG95
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
README FOR:         NA

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
PERSONAL NetWare 1.0

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ISSUE:

Q.  I want to re-map my local C: drive letter to a network drive, but
when I issue,

      NET MAP C: SERVER_DRVC, I get the following message:

      "You cannot map the default hard drive when your machine is a
server."

      What's wrong?

A.  The machine your attempting to NET MAP the C: drive letter is a
Personal 

      NetWare server.  The Personal NetWare server TSR* will not
allow the C: drive letter to be mapped.  This is due to the Personal
NetWare server TSR being hard coded to look to the root of the local
C: drive to find its configuration files in the hidden directory
C:\NWCNTL.  The location of the NWCNTL directory must be off of the
C:\ root and cannot be changed.

      A drive letter corresponding to a physical drive can be mapped
over as long as that drive is not the default drive for the local
server, i.e., 

      NET MAP A: SERVER_DRVC

Q.  In relation to the question above, if I try to NET MAP a drive
letter that is for my local CDROM drive I get the message:

      "Cannot map drive CD-ROM (drive letter):."

A.  The reason the Personal NetWare server will not allow a user to
NET MAP the drive letter that is reserved for a CD-ROM device, is
simply because it is through that drive letter that the CD-ROM is
accessed.  The CD-ROM device drivers reserved that drive letter when
they loaded, therefore, Personal NetWare will not allow the user to
NET MAP over the reserved drive letter.

* Terminate and Stay Resident.  A device, or section of programming
code, that is loaded into random access memory (RAM), and stays
there.  TSR's monitor conditions within the system and responds to
certain conditions that it recognizes and knows that it should and
knows how to respond to that condition.

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