Local PC's C drive

[rickmason]

Is there a way in a NOVELL Env. to be able see a networked PCs C drive??
I hear this can be accomplished in a Microsoft Env.
I create files that get updated hourly, If the network goes down we want the users to be able to access the last one processed. This can only be accomplished if I can put the file on the local hard drive. Thanks

 

[TheLad]

Just NET USE to the PC in the normal way, this has nothing to do with Novell/NetWare.

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[rickmason]

I am not on the "Network side" What is NET USE?? Thanks

 

[LawnBoy]

Standard MS method for mapping to a drive on another pc.
If you want to see the entire drive, you'll have to map to the admin share; i.e. you want the entire C: drive then the path would be \\whateverpc\c$ . You will need an admin equivalent password on the remote pc to do this.

Otherwise just path to the shared directory \\whatever\shared

 

[TheLad]

By the way, if your network goes down you won't be able to communicate with other PCs. If your NetWare server goes down (and it shouldn't as NetWare is a million times more reliable than MS servers), you can still connect.

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[marvhuffaker]

A better way to say that is "When your MS workstation that you're trying to make into a server goes down/gets shut off/kicked/bluescreens/etc, your Novell server will still be there for you". <grin>

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[terry712]

how many pc's are you talking about
where is the file stored
i assume you are going to automate this task - (scheduled zen policy or at worse a pc scheduled task that ftp's the file down)
personally having mapped drives to pc's is an alien concept to me

 

[rickmason]

I use a product called "Automate" I can run the job the generates the files and then store the file wherever with this product. We are a hospital running a "Meditech" as the core system. Automate is submitting and processing over 150 jobs daily behind the scenes that used to be done manually and the list is growing.
The scenario for this request is this. The nursing units would like a patient data available if our Meditech system happens to be down. I can run the jobs via Automate every 4 hours and send the data to the units (8 different units) "H" drives. This is fine UNLESS the network is down, which they are back to square one. This is why I want to generate the reports and try and drop them directly on their C drives. I even thought of creating a BAT file that would run from each of the units PCs and pull down the file from their H drive(??) Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[LawnBoy]

When you say "This is fine UNLESS the network is down" I'm assuming you mean "when the server that their H drive is mapped to is down" and that the network itself is operating (if the the 'network' is down, the only way to move data is via Sneakernet).

Your batch file idea would probably help the problem but only if the 'H' drive is down for short periods. I think what I'd try to do is to duplicate the data on another machine and map that as the users' 'I' drive. Then tell the users if H is down, pull from I.