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ADDENDUM TO ISSUE 4 OF THE AXXESS MANUALOCTOBER 1997
Page 34 of 73
Voice Mail Save/Restore To A Network
Drive
The NT version of the AXXESSORY Talk allows the
user to save or restore the database, voice data, and se-
lected information using a network directory in addi-
tion to the AXXESSORY Talk hard drive or floppy
drive. The AXXESSORY Talk provides this support by
mapping the B drive to the desired target directory as
follows:
•
The Avdap service must have access to directory
(read access for a restore and read/write access for
a save). If using a network path, it will need to run
AXXESSORY Talk so that it logs in as a network
user that has access to the network path.
•
Tell the Avdap service to map the B drive as the
specified directory.
•
Specify the B drive as the save/restore drive from
Database Programming.
NOTE: In order for this feature to work, the AXXES-
SORY Talk PC must not have a B drive (either real or
mapped). Otherwise, the AXXESSORY Talk will not
be able to perform its own B-drive mapping.
To map the B drive to a directory on the network, the
voice mail administrator needs to add a new command
option to the avdap.opt file in the root directory where
the AXXESSORY Talk software is installed. For ex-
ample, if the AXXESSORY Talk software is installed
in C:\AVDAP, the avdap.opt will have an absolute file-
name C:\AVDAP\avdap.opt. Note that capitalization is
unimportant. The format of the command option to
map the B drive to a network directory is:
–map_b=UNC_path
UNC_path is the name of the target directory in the
Universal Naming Convention as follows:
•
If the target directory is a Netware path, the
UNC_path can specify a directory path (for exam-
ple, \\nwserver\sy2\ud\avdap\save).
•
If the target directory is on another NT machine,
the UNC_path must specify a share name (for ex-
ample, \\ntserver\save_avdap_share).
For example, suppose a site wishes to perform saves to
the C:\AVDAPSV directory on the AXXESSORY Talk
PC itself (machine name VM_PC). The system admin-
istrator needs to create a share for the C:\AVDAPSV
directory. For example, the new shared directory is
called VM_SAVE. The voice mail administrator would
then need to edit the file avdap.opt and add the follow-
ing line:
–map_b=\\VM_PC\VM_SAVE
To save to a directory on a different PC, the system ad-
ministrator needs to create the shared directory on the
target PC, give the AXXESSORY Talk’s account read/
write access to the directory, and specify the –map_b
line that refers to the target PC’s share.
CAUTION
When the AXXESSORY Talk performs a save op-
eration, it erases files and/or directories from the
UNC_path. Therefore, be careful when specifying
the save/restore path. For example, do not specify
C:\ as the save/restore path because the AXXES-
SORY Talk would delete the entire C drive.