%OS and %OS_VERSION Reported Incorrectly

CAUSE

The use of environment variables in NetWare login scripts (like Windows NT Login Scripts) permits the substitution for fixed values such as Username, MS-DOS version, or Date and Time.

One of these identifier variables is %OS_VERSION. Under MS-DOS, this variable translates to the version of MS-DOS being used on the computer that is logging on to the NetWare server.

For example, the line in the login script

   MAP S2:=SYS:PUBLIC\%OS_VERSION
				

is converted to a drive mapping of

   S2:=Y:\ [SYS:PUBLIC\V6.22]
				

on a computer running MS-DOS 6.22.

When Windows NT Workstation or Server runs the NetWare login script, MS-DOS version 5.00 (V5.00) is substituted for Windows NT version 4.0 (the command line environment in Windows NT is based on MS-DOS v. 5.0).

Therefore, in Windows NT, the previous example would translate from

   MAP S2:=SYS:PUBLIC\%OS_VERSION
				

and is converted to a drive mapping of

   S2:=Y:\ [SYS:PUBLIC\V5.00]