[comp.sys.novell] AllocPermanentDirectoryHandle Problems

hamish@waikato.ac.nz (06/28/91)

Does anybody know if it is possible for a workstation logged into a novell file
server as something other than a user (eg a print server) to access a network
drive. I have a print server object that has supervisor status, and I keep
getting back a return code of FF from AllocPermanentDirectoryHandle(). I 
know the path exists and even if I try just the volume name I still get 0xff
returned. Any ideas? The actual call is

 Alloc..(0,"SYS:\",&rethandle,&retrights)

All combinations of "SYS", "SYS:", "SYS:\PUBLIC" all return either 0xff (which
doesn't list under that API call) or 0x98 (VOLUME_DOES_NOT_EXIST) which of
course it does. (Its the SYS volume!)

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

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|  Hamish Marson   <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz>                                    |
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