The Graham Utilities for OS/2 - Version 2


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Appendix H - DESVR

Summary

DESVR is a program which runs on remote machines to enable you to perform the remote disk accessing functions.

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Description

DESVR can only run as a detached process. To detach DESVR, from the command line enter:
DETACH DESVR
on any remote machine which you wish to access remotely. This enables the following programs to access remote disk drives:

DiskEdit

DS

FAT-Bad

FAT-Dfrg

FAT-Ext

FAT-Info

FAT-Null

FAT-UD

FAT-View

HPFS-Bad

HPFS-Ext

HPFS-UD

HPFSDfrg

HPFSInfo

HPFSNull

HPFSStat

HPFSView

To access the remote drives the above programs support the following command line syntax:

<Program> -on \\Remote Machine Name
Where Remote Machine Name is the name of the remote server or workstation. The Remote Machine Name will have been set when the network software was installed.

Warning : DESVR bypasses any and all security provided by the network. You may not wish to run it on all machines on your network.

Any file specifications or drive specifications refer to those on the remote machine (unless specifically otherwise noted) - not those on your local machine. For example:

DISKEDIT C: -on \\MAIN
DiskEdit will attempt to access drive C: on the remote machine named \\MAIN.

If the machine name does not exist you will see this error message:

SYS0053: The network path was not found.
If DESVR is not running on the remote machine you will receive the following error message:
SYS0003: The system cannot find the path specified.