[ale] Win95 'net use' command

[lon feldman]

jemcdevitt at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> This isn't exactly a Linux question, but since many folks here are
> responsible for maintaining *Nix/Windows networks I thought I might get
> some good pointers.
> 
> Here's the scenario:
> 
> We have a *nix server that NFS exports a directory: /opt/shared which
> shows up in network neighbor hood as SHARED.
> We have Win95 boxes that need to mount as:
> 
>         h:      /shared
>         j:      /shared/java/classes
> 
> Now, from the windows desktop through network neighbor hood I can
> create the mounts and when I run 'net use' it reads like:
> 
>         h:      \\server\shared
>         j:      \\server\shared\java\classes
> 
> But if I try to do:
> 
>         net use h: \\server\shared
> 
> This works, but
> 
>         net use j: \\server\shared\java\classes
> 
> fails.  What I'm seeing from my testing is that the Windows GUI will
> infact mount a drive letter rooted at a subdirectory of an NFS exported
> mount point, but 'net use' won't.
> 
> The NFS export won't allow exportfs to read as:
> 
>         /opt/shared
>         /opt/shared/java/classes
> 
> as it complains on the second line the /opt/shared is already exported.
> 
> We need to be able to use 'net use' to setup the mount points because
> the boxes are application terminals that need to boot up exactly
> configured each time. We don't want the users to access the explorer
> system, just run the applications.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Jere
 
Net use can't go levels deep.  Only \\server\resource.

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