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TITLE: Double Drive Mappings
DOCUMENT ID#: FYI.P.6039
DATE: October 29, 1991
PRODUCT: NetWare Lite
PRODUCT VERSION: All versions
SUPERSEDES: NA
SYMPTOM: NA
ISSUE/PROBLEM
Double Drive Mappings
If you are using NetWare Lite on the same network with Native NetWare (NetWare 3.11 or 2.2) you may encounter the situation where NetWare Lite's Net utility reports a single drive letter mapped to two different directories simultaneously (i.e. two F:'s). These "double drive mappings" will occur in the following scenario:
Map a drive letter with NetWare Lite (e.g. net map f: cdrive server1).
Login to a NetWare 3.11 or 2.2 server. If your server's system login script has a drive mapping that uses the same drive letter (f:) as the pervious NetWare Lite mapping it will override the mapping without giving the usual NetWare warning "drive already in use by local drive". Note: You will get the warning if you map from the command line.
If you then return to NetWare Lite's Net utility, and select drive mappings, you will see that f: appears as a NetWare Lite drive mapping and also as a Native NetWare Mapping.
When this situation occurs the mapping to Native NetWare will be the active mapping. NetWare Lite will flag its own mapping inactive and therefore inaccessible to the user. The NetWare Lite mapping can not be deleted as long as it is inactive. To make the NetWare Lite mapping active, delete the Native NetWare mapping.
