Re: Find all drives (sigh) on a network

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From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 12:05

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In article <1991May1.194041.17719@cica.indiana.edu>, burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) wrote:
}The very useful book *Undocumented DOS* does say that there are no
}current directory structures for network drives under Netware but
}I don't believe it says there are no DPBs for those drives.

Since NetWare hooks INT 21 and handles all requests for access to network
drives itself, DOS never sees the network drives.  Thus I'm not surprised
that DOS doesn't have DPBs for NetWare drives, since it doesn't even know
they exist.

}2. If so, what will I get back if I ask DOS for the DPB for each
}disk I *can* change to (21h/32h)?

If NetWare properly supports that call, you should be able to get a DPB by
making the call for the NetWare drives.
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