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?"

Comments

A real, network wide solution == Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't complain with all the excuses about what your boss told you was needed, secretaries not knowing how to use linux, etc. Those excuses quite mattering about 2002. Your boss also can't run his business if he has no IT department, and the secretaries can't do their job if they have no computer. It's high time you grew a pair, told your boss to go all linux or . . . hey, the economy is the best one to be unemployed in that we've had since W got elected.

someone has to say it

[Anonymous Coward]

install this handy dandy app on both machines, problem solved.

Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have a real, network wide solution?

Don't run Windows on networked computers.

I don't have this problem.

[Limburgher]

When I plug in my USB key, it gets automounted under /media/usb, and my /home and /mnt/remote NFS shares are still accessible, as well as the two SMB shares I use.