Multiple Drive letters pointing to Vantage folder

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We have had the same problem here since we installed Vantage 2 years ago. We have yet to have any luck in finding a fix. Even Microsoft were unable to help. It seems to be caused by the Merant 3.11 or 3.5 ODBC connection.

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David Sloan
IT Manager
Entech Integrated Technologies

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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Siebers
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:08 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Multiple Drive letters pointing to Vantage folder


Has anyone seen the oddity where (NT?) creates multiple drive letters all
pointing to the Vantage directory? If so, where can I find the fix?

TIA,

Paul Siebers





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Has anyone seen the oddity where (NT?) creates multiple drive letters all
pointing to the Vantage directory? If so, where can I find the fix?

TIA,

Paul Siebers





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I've seen it on a few of our computers, but have not found the problem or
solution. I just go in and disconnect them.

Wendy Bowen
Network Administrator
Schmald Tool & Die, Inc.
(810) 743-1600 ext.323
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Siebers <paul.siebers@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Multiple Drive letters pointing to Vantage folder


> Has anyone seen the oddity where (NT?) creates multiple drive letters all
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I believe this was part of the installation/upgrade process when going from
version 3.0 to 4.0, at one point you were to create on the server the mapped
drive letter of you clients. After the upgrade they are no longer needed.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Siebers [mailto:paul.siebers@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:38 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Multiple Drive letters pointing to Vantage folder


Has anyone seen the oddity where (NT?) creates multiple drive letters all
pointing to the Vantage directory? If so, where can I find the fix?

TIA,

Paul Siebers





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Paul,

This can be caused by two things:

FindFast attempts to index shortcuts (*.lnk) that reference
mapped drive letters. It creates another logical drive
for every mapped shortcut it sees. Disable FindFast (remove
from Startup folder).

NT creates a logical drive letter for every shortcut that
references a UNC target (\\server\resource) instead of a
mapped drive letter. This one is a little harder to pin
down, but I've seen it happen and fixed it by changing UNC
shortcuts to mapped shortcuts (also had FindFast disable
because it is a pig).

have fun,
john




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Siebers
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:38 AM
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: [Vantage] Multiple Drive letters pointing to
> Vantage folder
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I have had many battles with this little NT quirk. This is a very puzzling
feature of NT that seems more like a bug to me. The only thing that I can
figure is that maybe the MS engineers wanted NT to try and help out if you
somehow lost your network connection to the needed share. Instead of using
the drive letter path specified in the shortcut, NT used the full UNC path
and maps the share to the next available drive. I use a login script to map
user drives and found out that this makes it worse. Even when the correct
drive is mapped on login, I had some workstations with four or five drives
mapped to the same share.
I finally found a registry hack in the MS Knowledgebase, article ID Q150215
"Disabling Automatic Network Shortcut Resolution".
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q150/2/15.asp . There is a
catch though, if the user logged on does not have Admin. rights, you cannot
change anything in the registry, and, if you log on as Admin. how do you get
to the particular users HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive? Well I ended up editing the
registries remotely as Admin. with each user on their own station. That
fixed about 95% of the problem, but it still pops up now and then.

Good Luck,

Brian R. Allen
MIS Administrator
Parkinson Machinery



Message: 15
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:38:24 -0400
From: Paul Siebers <paul.siebers@...>
Subject: Multiple Drive letters pointing to Vantage folder

Has anyone seen the oddity where (NT?) creates multiple drive letters all
pointing to the Vantage directory? If so, where can I find the fix?

TIA,

Paul Siebers