Search Drives

[Fire1]

I am doing some research from home, so I do not have access to NetWare right now.  I am tring to get some information on search drives.  Through DOS, I know that I can issues the MAP  command, and it will assign a drive letter to a directory on the server.  Now, after I create a batch file, I can save it to the drive that I created through explorer.  I know that I can run the batch file through explorer by clicking on the batch file.  My question is, can I run it through DOS by changing the drive to path that I mapped out.  Any input will be appreciated.  

 

[DrGreen26]

Ok, not sure if this will answer your question or not but here is a tidbit:<br><br>You arew familiar with regualr drive mapppings:<br><br>MAP &lt;Letter&gt;:=\\&lt;Server&gt;\&lt;Volume&gt;:&lt;Path&gt;<br><br>You can also map a search drive in a similar format<br><br>MAP S&lt;#&gt;:=\\&lt;Server\&lt;Volume&gt;:&lt;Path&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where the # is a number 1 through 9<br><br>You can get more info on accessing these drives through support.novell.com and lookup search drives and mappings:<br><br>Drive mapping essentially put an icon on your dekstop to the particular volume\folder<br><br>A search drive tells the novell client to serach in a particual directory or volume for specific information or file.&nbsp;&nbsp;example:&nbsp;&nbsp;Lets say I issue the &quot;map&quot; command at a dos prompt to see what drives I have mapped.&nbsp;&nbsp;What the Novell client will do is look at the Novell search drives for the MAP command before it looks locally.&nbsp;&nbsp;It follows a search path to check S1, then S2 and so on until it finds the command.&nbsp;&nbsp;If it is not found, you will get a &quot;File not found error&quot;<br><br>I hope that this will shed some light on what you are trying to achieve. Give it a whirl, should make a difference...<br><br> <p>Mark C. Greenwood, Certified N<br><a href=mailto:m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com>m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> I have been working in the industry for a little more than 10 years. I hold a current CNE certification for Intranetware 4.11<br>
and Netware 5. I also have my BS in MIS