PROLM9012007: REMOTE Drive Always Reported LOCAL in LM BASIC

ID Number: Q72373

2.00b

OS/2

buglist2.00b

Summary:

PROBLEM ID: PROLM9012007

SYMPTOMS

A program that executes DOS interrupt 21H Function 44H Subfunction

09H (IOCTL: Check if block device is remote) against a remote drive

on a Basic workstation running MS-DOS version 4.01 with HIMEM.SYS

always reports that the drive is LOCAL.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in DOS LAN Manager

version 2.00b. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post

new information here as it becomes available.