--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network Drive Manager v1.0.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS 1. LEGAL 1.1. Copyright 1.2. License agreement 1.3. Disclaimer 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 3. INSTALLATION 3.1. Installing 3.2. Uninstalling 4. DESCRIPTION 5. BUGS AND FEEDBACK 6. HISTORY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. LEGAL 1.1. Copyright Network Drive Manager (NDM) - Copyright ? Lothian 2004-2005. All rights reserved. By using this software you accept all the terms and conditions of the license agreement and disclaimer below. All registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective holders. 1.2. License agreement Network Drive Manager is FREE SOFTWARE and must be provided at no charge. You are granted the right to distribute Network Drive Manager in its original format. 1.3. Disclaimer Network Drive Manager is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind either express or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will the author be liable to you for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this software. The user must assume the entire risk of using the software. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This version of NDM runs on Windows 2000 and XP. It hasn't been tested on other operating systems but it will likely work on Windows 98, ME, NT4 and 2003. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. INSTALLATION 3.1. Install NetworkDriveManager.zip or NetworkDriveManager<VERSION>.zip contains a self-extracting setup program. Note: Microsoft Installer (MSI) needs to be available on your system (default on 2000, XP). Run Setup.exe to install NDM. 3.2. Uninstall NDM can be uninstalled via Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs. It is not recommended to remove the program files manually because any shortcuts and registry settings will not be removed in this way. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. DESCRIPTION Windows - especially XP - does not properly reconnect network drives that should be reconnected at logon. Although they will be remembered they are usually not activated (even if they appear in Windows Explorer with an active network drive icon). This behavior causes problems when e.g. you use a server that is mapped to a network drive to store your documents and settings. If an application is launched that uses the settings stored on the network drive it will attempt to access those settings but it will fail because the network location is not available. One solution is to click first in Window Explorer on the network drive before starting any application that uses settings on your server. However if the network drive isn't accessed for a while the network drive will again get disconnected. Another solution is to launch a batch file at startup that consists of a 'net use' statement. This isn't a very reliable solution because the batch file might be executed before any network connection is available. NDM uses the approach of the batch file; after system startup it connects to the network drives that are configured using NDM where after they are kept 'alive' to prevent disconnection (in case NDM is launched before any network connection is available a short interval mechanism is used to reconnect the network drives until they are connected where after a long interval mechanism is used). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. BUGS AND FEEDBACK Please send any bugs or feedback to: lothian@zonnet.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. HISTORY v1.0.4: - Initial public release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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