Telnet Oddities

Walter Vaughan wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Wed Dec 15 11:08:38 PST 2004


lists at harris-home.com wrote:

> I've got kind of a weird situation. I have a WinXP Pro system that is
> running FP. We have several local networked users that are using this
> system without any troubles. We also have 4 or 5 users that are telnetting
> in using Georgia Softworks Telnet.
> 
> My telnet users keep getting errors reading Drive A: when they try to
> access certain records.

I guess that's the difference between using *real* terminal services and 
  something cobbled on to XP. Obviously it's due to environmental 
variables being lost in the translation...

In a perfect world you'd get Georgia Softworks to fix the problem.

However you're gonna have to chase environmental variables till you 
solve this.



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