Subj : Re: drive mapping problems
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Fri Aug 04 2000 12:29 am

 DG>> All I can suggest is that you upgrade to the latest client from
 DG>> Novell. If you can't find it due to your problems, netmail me an
 DG>> email address, and I'll download it and email it to you.

 LE> I've got it. But the problem isn't the network client, it's the
 LE> Internet browsers. The programmers for them never seem to have
 LE> considered the case of a system that's on a LAN, wants to be on the
 LE> LAN while connected to the Internet, and connects to the Internet via
 LE> a dial-up connection using a modem attached to the machine, not
 LE> somewhere out on the network.

Ahhh.

My answer to that is - run Linux. :-)

My system does exactly that - browses the local LAN fine, and routes internet 
packets out the modem dial-up when necessary. :)

{I know, I know, it's not viable usually, but...}

DaZZa

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