Trouble with MAP DRIVES

[Juan Alonso]

Good afternoon.

I am having a problem with my mapped drives.

They show under My Computer, but my programs will say ACCESS DENIED INVALID
PATH.

I get this on any Windows XP machine.

We have a Novell Network 3.12 on a PowerEdge Server where we keep our data.

The windows user just logs in, runs programs that read and write data to the
Novell server.

I thought it was a Windows/Novell conflict, but I have a windows xp machine
that I also keep data in.

It is the machine I use to write code on. It sits behind me and I have a
mapped drive to it also.

This happens until I click the drive letter in My Computer and then it has
access.

Why is WindowsXP not staying connected with the mapped drive, but yet I can
log it out of Novell and it can re-log itself in just fine.

So staying connected is not a problem just for some reason it looses
connection with the mapped drives????

Anyone out there know what I should check???

Thank you,

Juan

 

[Anteaus]

This is incredibly old server software, amazing to see that such systems are
still in use today!

That said, if it does what's required then why change it, especially if a
replacement might introduce a whole raft of new problems.

Basically you shouldn't have any conflicts so long as you use the Microsoft
Netware client. I wouldn't try installing the NetWare 3.12 native client as
it wasn't designed for 32-bit systems (let alone 64-bit!) You could use
Novell's Client 32 for Netware 4, but IMHO you are better sticking with the
inbuilt XP client.

As for your connectivity issue, check LAN card powersave:

http://mylogon.net/support/psave/

 

[Juan Alonso]

Thank you for the information.

I will see if the power-save is off on the cards.

Also I wanted to add that we do use, on some systems, the Novell 32bit
Client for Windows XP and it works good.

No matter wich one I am useing it does the same thing so I am going with the
card problem first.

I will post my results here for all to read.

Again, thanks Anteaus.

Juan