Use the MAP command to map drives to network directories. (See MAP for a general description of the command.)

Use the MAP command to map search drives. Search drive mappings enable the system to locate a program even if it isn't located in the directory the user is working in.

A maximum of 16 NetWare search drives is allowed. You can't map a search drive and a regular network drive to the same letter.

When you map a search drive, use a search drive number (an S followed by a number). This search drive number assigns the next available drive letter to the mapping, starting with Z and working backwards through the English alphabet.

The letter assigned to the search drive is put into the DOS path statement. If you already have search drives in the path statement, the command MAP S1: overwrites the first one in the path. To prevent search drive assignments from overwriting existing DOS PATH letters, use the INSERT option when assigning search drives. For example:

MAP INS S16:= path

To ensure that users can access NetWare utilities and applications, you should consider mapping search drives so that the first search drive (S1:) maps to the SYS:PUBLIC directory, which contains the NetWare utilities for DOS and MS Windows workstations.

The order in which mappings are listed is important because the order of items in the list is the order in which the directories are searched. The system searches, following the numerical order of the search drives, until the program file either is found or can't be located. The list can include a combination of local and network directories.

To avoid inadvertently changing the order of any search drives that must be mapped to a specific drive letter, you can map all remaining search drives with the number S16:, which assigns the next lowest search number available each time it is used.

If you have an application that requires a particular drive letter, you can use the following command to map the search drive, replacing drive with the drive letter:

MAP S16:= drive:= path

If you map a search drive using a number already assigned to a search drive, NetWare makes the old search drive a network drive. The letter assigned to the old search drive remains assigned as the converted drive mapping. The new search drive takes the next unused letter in the alphabet.