Using wntAddDrive versus w95AddDrive Functions

Keywords:  wntAddDrive w95AddDrive  

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Question:

I am using a similar script for NT and 95, but am using the appropriate extenders for each platform. The NT script works, but the 95 does not. What gives?

Here is sample code I am using for NT that works:

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wntAddDrive("Guest","","\\ISD_DB\SYS",@NONE,@FALSE)
RunZoomWait("\\ISD_DEV\VOL1\apps\view31\views.exe",
"\\ISD_DEV\VOL1\isddocs\folio\nfo\main.nfo")
wntCancelCon("\\ISD_DB\SYS",@TRUE,@TRUE)
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This Win95 code does not work:

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w95AddDrive("Guest","","\\ISD_DB\SYS",@NONE,@FALSE)
RunZoomWait("\\ISD_DEV\VOL1\apps\view31\views.exe",
"\\ISD_DEV\VOL1\isddocs\folio\nfo\main.nfo")
w95CancelCon("\\ISD_DB\SYS",@TRUE,@TRUE) 

Answer:

Your error is on w95AddDrive. You are trying to log in as Guest. I think this is a no-no on Win95.

You might try changing GUEST to @DEFAULT and log in as the current user....

This is NOT a limitation of WinBatch but of Windows 95. Unlike NT, Win95 will NOT let you logon as a different user or as Guest. You also can only logon ONCE to the system and that's it.

Tip:

When w95AddDrive tries to use @default, we just instruct windows to use the current default. Apparently sometimes it is not set yet. So sometimes, if you try to connect to a Novell volume, the w95AddDrive does not pass the @default user ID reliably, even if the user ID is synchronized on the PC. To counteract this, get the user ID from the w95UserInfo(0) function and pass that in a variable to w95AddDrive.

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Article ID:   W13556

Filename:   w95AddDrive versus wNTAddDrive.txt