🚀 go-pugleaf

That's a tall order but this is how you start...  go and get power toys from
microsoft.com (freebie).  One of these toys is called "TweakUI".  Once
installed you can configure it from the control panel and one of it's
features is automatic login (you specify a username and password and it gets
entered automatically every time the PC is started)...  but be warned, the
password isn't encrypted, it's stored as a clear text entry in the Windows
registry.

Second, place any applications you want to start up automatically in the
startup folder (c:\windows\start~1\programs\startup).

And third make sure you're running client32 from Novell on the workstation
(another freebie).  There are parameters that can be set in client32 to wait
a high number of seconds (900, I think) before dropping an absent connection
from the server.  Even if that happens, and the server becomes available
again the program that you have running that uses novell drive mappings will
autoreconnect to the server (assuming of course your program doesn't give up
trying because it can't find network drives).

But some things that I don't think can be done (notice, I didn't say "no
possible way it can be done".  Because there's always a bigger fish that
knows more), include having the PC come up without a server and connect when
the server does become available.  It's possible that since TweakUI is
caching the password it should be passed over to Client32 when the database
app goes for those drive mappings.  I don't think it'll happen reliably.
I'd give it one chance in three.

But if you treat your server right, give it the healthy maintenance it
needs, it won't go down on you...  I mean there are NetWare 2 servers that
haven't been rebooted since before there was a Windows NT 3.

We have some automated Win95 computers at work to do something similar to
this...  and I think you'll find that the most constant problem you'll have
is coming in to find the blue screen (which happens every month or so).  But
then you should never send a boy to do a man's job.

Good luck.

garyf

Ian Addinsell <ian@addinsell.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7praq9$qfb$1@neptunium.btinternet.com...
> Can someone help me with a few related question.
>
> I want a W'95 PC to connect to a Novell server and, using a drive mapping,
> execute an application on boot-up of the PC - after a power failure or
> whatever. WITHOUT user intervention.
>
> I want the same PC to wait for the Novell server to become available and
> then do the same as above - should the server be down when the PC comes
up.
>
> I want the same PC to be able to recover from temporary loss of the Novell
> server.  By that I mean, should the server be rebooted whilst the PC is
NOT
> using it allow the PC to use it without user intervention.
>
> All the above are to allow a PC to run a database application nightly -
> reliably, every night !!
>
> Is there a 'recommended' way to achieve this, are there shareware / modest
> cost utilities to help in this ?
>
> Hoping you can help...
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
>
>