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Re-establishing a network drive

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by mfurgatch 1 view

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Operating in Novel 5.1 and Win98SE, an errant technician has changed a network drive into a device (cdrom) on a PC. I can still access the network drive from the PC, but certain functions have been lost. There is not an option available to disconnect this "device" from thte network in order to remap, nor will it delete. How do I remove this device from the PC without affecting the network? I do not want to remap to another drive.

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by oz_media

You say there is no option to disconect from the Network, so I assume that you have tried the Disconnect Network Drive from the sys tray icon.

I think you'll HAVE to remap. Just remap and then map it back to the desired drive letter.

I was gonna say disconnect the drive and remap but it looks like you've tried the obvious.

One last poke, if you dieconnsct the drive by removing it, I believe that Netware will ask if you wish to try reconnecting it, if you select No, you should be ableto map the same drive letter to another drive?

Then just reconnect the CDRom?!?

by budthegrey

I haven't worked with Win9X in a while, but I think from device manager you can re-assign the CD-ROM a new drive letter.

by tim.doyle

Just change the CDROM back to D: (or whatever it used to be) and reboot the PC. The login script will map the drive like it always used to and everything will be fine.

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