I'll give you more information then. This is a government office in which I have been working for 4 years. In the last year I've been given the responsibility of trying to clean up the messes of the previous admins, who have been using NetWare since version 3. We've previously started upgrading the user systems from Win 2k to XP. This is when this problem showed up. If you did a disk management check for free drive letters on Win 2k, it would reckognize mapped drives as being in use. To my knowledge, (and I could be wrong), it is only in Windows XP that there's this problem.
I am quite aware that F drive is not 'needed' anymore, and I'm looking into moving the drive letters. But since that will cause not only political fallout, but problems with older, in-house custom applications that rely on specific drive mappings, I am looking for alternative methods first. Which is why I put out this request. The USBLETTER 'cool program' from Novell's website is a fix, but not a very good one. Someone posted the USBDLM program link, and that seems promising.
In Government work, people don't like change, and it's an uphill battle for IT guys to implement these changes, no matter how trivial it may seem to us. I'm sure this is still the case in the private sector as well. But you're right... F drive being in use is my problem. Which would explain why I'm the one who posted this request, and not you.
I'm not looking for a solution on a silver platter, just some ideas and points of view.
The submitter, (that would be me), did make a point of saying that he couldn't change the drive lettering. I also mentioned that this was a solution, just not one for me:
"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"
What I am asking Slashdot for is other possible solutions. Of which I have already gotten a few and am grateful.
I'm sure Microsoft will find away to mess it all up.
If they offered the operating system for free, it would work well with low cost computers, to be used in low income areas and 3rd world countries; especially in the schools. It would be worth having some adds on school supplies and new toys if it gave kids more opportunities to learn on computers. And not having to pay for OS licences would definitely save money.... Of course, all this said, you could just use Linux;)
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I'll give you more information then. This is a government office in which I have been working for 4 years. In the last year I've been given the responsibility of trying to clean up the messes of the previous admins, who have been using NetWare since version 3. We've previously started upgrading the user systems from Win 2k to XP. This is when this problem showed up. If you did a disk management check for free drive letters on Win 2k, it would reckognize mapped drives as being in use. To my knowledge, (and I could be wrong), it is only in Windows XP that there's this problem. I am quite aware that F drive is not 'needed' anymore, and I'm looking into moving the drive letters. But since that will cause not only political fallout, but problems with older, in-house custom applications that rely on specific drive mappings, I am looking for alternative methods first. Which is why I put out this request. The USBLETTER 'cool program' from Novell's website is a fix, but not a very good one. Someone posted the USBDLM program link, and that seems promising. In Government work, people don't like change, and it's an uphill battle for IT guys to implement these changes, no matter how trivial it may seem to us. I'm sure this is still the case in the private sector as well. But you're right ... F drive being in use is my problem. Which would explain why I'm the one who posted this request, and not you.
I'm not looking for a solution on a silver platter, just some ideas and points of view.
The submitter, (that would be me), did make a point of saying that he couldn't change the drive lettering. I also mentioned that this was a solution, just not one for me: "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" What I am asking Slashdot for is other possible solutions. Of which I have already gotten a few and am grateful.
Will it have a picture of Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato) on the desktop?
I'm sure Microsoft will find away to mess it all up. If they offered the operating system for free, it would work well with low cost computers, to be used in low income areas and 3rd world countries; especially in the schools. It would be worth having some adds on school supplies and new toys if it gave kids more opportunities to learn on computers. And not having to pay for OS licences would definitely save money. ... Of course, all this said, you could just use Linux ;)