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PC DOS: DrivesNovell Not Support Novell 4.0 Special Characters

Article ID: 123373

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006


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SUMMARY

In Novell NetWare version 4.0 and later, you can use special characters in user login and server names that will not work with the DrivesNovell option.

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DrivesNovell option requires the following:

SERVERNAME/VOLUME:\MAILDATA LOGINNAME PASSWORD.

In case of NetWare 4.0 and later, this SERVERNAME and LOGINNAME can contain the following special characters:

/ Slash
\ Backslash
: Colon
, Comma
* Asterisk
? Question mark

These special characters will not work if used with the DrivesNovell option. Instead, a non-NetWare version 4.0 client workstation naming standard must be used.

For more information see the "Supervising the Network" manual, pages 34-37.

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