[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] NFS mount out of Windows 3.0 DLL

aruit@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A. de Ruiter) (10/18/90)

Hello Netreaders,

We try to do a redirection of a remote file system to a local PC drive from
a Windows 3.0 Dynamic Link Library which execute via WinExec() a Dos program
which does the NFS mount.  This mount is done correctly, but the new local
PC drive is not known in Windows 3.0 or another Windows 3.0 application.

We think this problem occur because when Windows 3.0 execute a Dos command
it creates a new virtual dos machine with an own environment.  So this
environment is changed by the nfs mount to let Dos know about the new local
PC drive, but after the Dos command is finished this virtual dos machine
and environment is gone and the Windows 3.0 environment is unchanged.

Does anyone know if this is the real problem and/or how to solve this?

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