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- From: dale@manet.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS & MS-DOS ASSIGN
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.151548.6055@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:15:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep08.100204.27562@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk
- (John Franks) writes:
- > I'm having trouble with PC-NFS crashing my computer if I even run the
- "assign"
- > command. This wouldn't be a problem (use subst) except that I have to
- have
- > a partitioned hard disk, taking C: and D:, but for historical reasons, I
- want
- > to have D: mounted over PC-NFS and probably E: redirected to the real
- D:.
- > I can do the second half, but without ASSIGN I can't get D: to be
- a
- > PC-NFS mounted drive.
- >
- > So, I'm after any ideas on getting around this, or avoiding the
- problem
- > with "assign".
- >
- > Help . . .
- >
- > P.S. Yes, I've tried every combination of join/subst I can think of. No
- luck.
-
- Both ASSIGN and SUBST will not work with networked drives (I wish it
- would!) Blame Microsoft. It's documented in the DOS 5.0 manual.
- PC-NFS used to provide its own remapping command but I've heard that they
- took it out. (Is this true??)
-
- Dale Frye
- Washington University in St. Louis
-