Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 520

Errors When Reconnecting Permanent Drive Mappings to Servers in Different Directory
Trees
Permanent Connections
You can turn off the default by adding SET MAPROOTOFF="1" as the first
line in the login script. This will globally force all NT workstations using the
login script to not map root drives.
Or, you can perform the following procedure on a local workstation:
1
Right-click My Computer.
2
Click Properties > Environment.
3
Enter MAPROOTOFF as a variable.
4
Set the value of the MAPROOTOFF variable to 1.
5
Click Select.
In Windows NT 4.0, users might encounter an error when restoring permanent
drive mappings to NetWare servers in different trees. These mappings will be
authenticated through Novell eDirectory. The user might get an Invalid
Password prompt when restoring these drives. This is not because the
password is invalid but because the client does not have a valid context for the
secondary tree.
If this problem occurs, enter the default context for all eDirectory trees on the
Client tab of the Novell Client Configuration page. This is accessed by right-
clicking Network Neighborhood and then clicking Properties > Services >
Novell Client for Windows NT > Properties.
If you have a permanent drive mapping that conflicts with a drive mapping
made in your login script, a dialog box appears indicating that an error
occurred while reconnecting the drive and that the local device name is
already in use. One of the options in this dialog box has some confusing
results. If you check Do Not Try to Restore the Connection in the Future, and
then click Yes or OK, the drive mapping made from your login script is
removed.
If you do not check this check box, the drive mapping from your login script
is preserved. This is a bug in Windows NT. By default, Windows NT removes
any mappings on that drive letter without checking to see whether the existing
drive mapping is the same path as the permanent connection.
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