The latest V3 Win32 client GUI (version 3.1.0.5, which was just refreshed
yesterday) has a backup tree that displays "Local", "Network", and "Removable"
file systems. If you just work with the "Local" drives, I'm pretty sure that we
don't look at the floppy since it is a removable drive.

About the second problem: I vaguely recall similar issues in the Windows 3.1x
environment. In those cases, launching ADSM caused internet applications (like
a web browser, or something like that) to be launched. This was because
installation of the internet application caused a new TCP/IP stack for that
application to get installed (I think it got installed in a separate path from
the normal TCP/IP stack, but the path configuration caused the new stack to be
used by default). Going back to the normal stack resolved the problem. My
memory is a bit fuzzy on the details (it's been a few years since I've seen
this), but I think I got the gist of it right.

Anyway, maybe something like this is happening in your user's case?

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

> Don't ask me why, but I have a customer who would prefer it if ADSM didn't
> check the A: drive when the GUI is first initiated.  I think they don't
> like
> the noise it makes and since they won't ever be backing anything up from
> the
> A: drive they don't want to listen to it.  Anyway, being the good support
> person I strive to be, I thought I'd ask if anybody knows a way to have it
> stop doing that?  We tried  DOMAIN C: D: in the options file, but it still
> goes to check the A: drive.  We're a version 2 Windows 94 32-bit Intel
> client
> and version 2 VM server.
>
> This person also has another problem - When the ADSM GUI is initiated a
> product they're using on their workstation called, Midrange Workspace
> launches and attempts to connect to an AS400 machine.  Has anybody every
> heard of this or have any thoughts on what might be going on?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Betsy
>