WD97: Banyan Vines Drives Do Not Appear in Word Drive List

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.51

SYMPTOMS

When you use a Banyan Vines client version, 5.56(5) with Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, the drives mapped by the client do not appear in the drive list in Microsoft Word 97.

STATUS

Contact Banyan Vines for the latest client version. As of June 97, the current release of the Banyan client for NT is release 4, version 7.26. Microsoft has not tested this version and therefore cannot guarantee its results.

For information about how to contact Banyan Vines, query in the Knowledge Base for one of the following articles:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q65416
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60781
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60782
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

MORE INFORMATION

Drives that appear in Microsoft Windows File Manager can be accessed in Word by specifying the correct drive letter in the file name.

For example, if you map a Banyan Vines drive as drive E:, it does not appear in the Look In list in the Open dialog box. However, you can view the files on drive E: by typing "E:" (without the quotation marks) in the File Name box and pressing ENTER.

Banyan Vines is manufactured by a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

REFERENCES

For more information about using Word with Banyan Vines, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE ID: Q158493
   TITLE     : WD97:  Wizard Vanishes When Run from Banyan Vines Server

   ARTICLE ID: Q162541
   TITLE     : WD97: Can't Access Mail Merge Data Source on Banyan Network

   ARTICLE ID: Q170914
   TITLE     : WD97: File Open Reverts to Program Folder Not Network
               Location

   ARTICLE ID: Q158492
   TITLE     : WD97: "Word Cannot Obtain..." Inserting Object on Banyan
               Vines