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to: GEORGE FLIGER
from: DANIEL JONES
date: 1996-09-04 07:08:00
subject: server and W95

GF>  HL> "and what if I clic here ?"] we'd like to save our standard
GF>  HL> configurations on a server (Novell 3.12) with the possibility
GF>  HL> of booting any station with a disket and copy the configuration
GF>  HL> back.
GF>  HL> With a W 3.11 station, it's OK
GF>  HL> with W95, it is NOT. I think it's a problem caused by non
GF>  HL> 8.3 names of file.
GF> Not correct.  W95 will not only run items in your basic CONFIG.SYS a
GF> AUTOEXEC.BAT but also processes items listed in the Registry that ar
GF> set up to be run during the boot process.  There's not a whole lot y
GF> can do about that.
Why couldn't you copy the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, then backup
the registry on the server?  You can restore the registry by running
regedit with the proper command line arguments.  It'd be slightly more
involved than just copying a couple of configuration files, but
certainly doable.
Regards,
Daniel  Internet:daniel.jones@sourcebbs.com
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