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Fixes for WinXP Ignoring Novell Disk Mapping?
Arcidius asks: "It's been a year and still nobody seems to have a real solution for getting USB devices to work under Windows XP in an Novell environment. If you're running Windows XP and Novell servers (NetWare 6 for us), Windows XP will show all drives available, even though usually many are have been drive mapped. When you plug in an external hard drive or USB device, Windows maps it to the first free drive letter, usually F:, but since Novell has mapped it already, you can't access the drive. The fix so far has been to manually remap the memory key to a free letter, such as B:, and this has to be done on every machine. Either that, or switch your first mapped drive, which is more of a problem in most environments. Since Novell can't figure out a solution, (and Microsoft obviously doesn't care), I throw it to Slashdot. Does anyone have a real, network wide solution?"
Seriously... Why? NFS and/or SAMBA and a few Linux servers are much easier to deal with...
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Windows 3.x had no part in it. DOS first mapped primary partitions across all hard drives to available drive letters, then did secondary partitions. Add a second hard disk and its primary partition(s) got squeezed into the middle of your alphabet. Either figure out how to reconfigure your programs or reinstall them. What fun!
I can't believe Microsoft is still mucking about with drive letters. It's 2006, FFS!
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