NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              AFPFIX4.NLM Macintosh Patch for NetWare 3.11
DOCUMENT ID:        TID000026
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               01JUL93
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         AFIX4.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare for Macintosh Pre 3.011

ABSTRACT:
This file contains AFPFIX4.NLM.  This patch has a set of changes required
for compatibility with Farallon PhoneNET Talk, which uses AFP Short Names. 
However; if you are unable to mount a volume from Farallon's PhoneNET Talk,
change the volume name so that it has no period (.) and fewer than eight
characters.
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Self-Extracting File Name:  AFIX4.EXE

Files Included     Size     Date        Time

   AFIX4.TXT          (This File)
 AFPFIX4.NLM       2555    2-28-92     12:28a
PATCHMAN.NLM       8923   10-10-91     10:20a


README
PTF-W-023

This is AFPFIX4.NLM.  With this patch we made a set of changes required for
compatibility with Farallon PhoneNET Talk, which uses AFP Short Names.
However, if you find that you are unable to mount a volume from Farallon's
PhoneNET Talk, change the volume name so that it has no period (.) and
fewer than 8 characters.

When using this patch, NetWare volumes can be mounted from the PC using
PhoneNET Talk as long as the volume names meet certain restrictions:

1. If the transformed volume name is no more than eight characters and does
not contain a period, then PhoneNET Talk will have no problem.   This is
the recommended configuration for servers with PhoneNET Talk clients.

2. If the transformed volume name is longer than eight characters and does
not contain a period, then PhoneNET Talk will be able to mount the volume
using a simply truncated volume name.  For example, a volume called
"Andromeda" will be mounted as "ANDROMED".

3. If the transformed name contains a period, but conforms to DOS 8.3
naming conventions, then PhoneNET Talk will be able to mount the volume. 
For example, the volume "Server99.SYS" will be mounted as "SERVER99.SYS".

4. If the transformed name contains a period after the 9th character, then
PhoneNET Talk will not be able to mount the volume.  For example, a volume
called "FileServer.SYS" will not be mountable.  This will be extremely
common in the field due to automatic transformation of the SYS volume
name.

5. If there are multiple volumes and the transformed names do not differ in
the first eight characters, then PhoneNET Talk will not be able to
distinguish between the volumes.  It will successfully mount the first
volume on the list when attempting to mount any of the volumes.  We should
expect this configuration to occur in the field, as some System
Administrators may wish to associate all volumes with the server in the
fashion "ServerName.Volume".

To install the patch to the AFP.NLM:

 (a) Copy PATCHMAN.NLM and AFPFIX4.NLM to SYS:\SYSTEM.
 (b) Add the following commands to AUTOEXEC.NCF:
       LOAD PATCHMAN
       LOAD AFPFIX4.NLM
      The lines should be added after the LOAD AFP command line.
 (c) Down the server and re-boot, or manually load PATCHMAN and
      AFPFIX4 at the NetWare console.

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