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If you think that logging out with NetX was a pain, you haven't seen anything until you do it with VLM shells. The VLM shells have a very unfriendly feature. Before you log in your first network drive is Map Rooted to the LOGIN directory. That means that you are at an F:\ prompt. Most of the time login scripts remap drive F: to other directories and that's where the problems start.
Suppose you are running a batch file from the LOGIN directory called STARTUP.BAT. DOS thinks the batch file name is F:\STARTUP.BAT. But now you move drive F: to a different directory. What happens when dos goes back to the F:\STARTUP.BAT file? It's gone! You're stuck at a BATCH FILE MISSING prompt.
By the way, if this should ever happen to you, you can type ECHO ON and get your prompt back. This little known trick will save you hours of rebooting time.
Anyhow, the reason you get a "missing batch file" is because of remapping drive F:, your F:\STARTUP.BAT file no longer exists in the root directory.
One of the tricks to get around this is to copy your STARTUP.BAT file to the root directory of the server, and to give the group EVERYONE rights to that file. That way, when it goes looking for F:\STARTUP.BAT, it will still be there.
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