Installing NetWare Navigator on a 4.1 Server TID1200842 15JUN95 NetWare Navigator 3.0 DISCLAIMER: THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. Question: What needs to be done to install NetWare Navigator 3.0 on a 4.1 Server? 1. Login Scripts When you install new clients, the NetWare Navigator setup program modifies the clients' bindery login scripts to map drives and run the client setup program. These lines are shown below: For DOS/Windows clients: MAP N:=\SYS: MAP INS S16:=\SYS:\NETNAV\USER MAP INS S16:=\SYS:\NETNAV\CODE PCCOMPATIBLE #NNWSI For OS/2 clients: MAP N:=\SYS: #N:\NETNAV\OS2USER\NNWSNLM In order for the NetWare Navigator clients to be able to login to NetWare Directory Services, these changes will need to be made to the NetWare Directory Services login scripts. You could copy the lines from each user's bindery login script to their NetWare Directory Services login script - but it would be painstaking for a large number of users. Instead, you can copy the lines to the login script for Organizational Unit (OU) where your users reside, and then change the NNWSI line the following: #NNWSI %LOGIN_NAME The "%LOGIN_NAME" tells the login program to substitute the name of the user currently logging in. If not all users in the OU will be NetWare Navigator clients, you can surround all of the NetWare Navigator lines with an "IF MEMBER OF GROUP" clause. You would then need to add all of the users you want to be NetWare Navigator clients to the group name you specify. The OU login script would then look like the following: IF MEMBER OF "" THEN MAP N:=\SYS: MAP INS S16:=\SYS:\NETNAV\USER MAP INS S16:=\SYS:\NETNAV\CODE PCCOMPATIBLE #NNWSI %LOGIN_NAME END 2. NWSDRUN.NCF and AUTOEXEC.BAT File Changes NetWare Navigator uses Storage Management Services (SMS) for some of the distribution functions Get SMSUPx.EXE from Novell via CompuServe or Internet. Follow all of the readme instructions for SMSUP2 and SMSNAV to customize NetWare Navigator to use the latest SMS files. In the NetWare 4.1 environment, some of the SMS file names have changed. The NWSDRUN.NCF file needs to be modified to load the correct NLM files. Correspondingly, the clients' AUTOEXEC.BAT files need to change to load the SMS TSR that works with the updated NLMs. The contents of the NWSDRUN.NCF file should be the following: bstart load tsa410 load tsaproxy load tsados load djobschd load djobfdbk load sjobdmgr load sjobfdbk The NetWare Navigator section of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file should be changed to load TSASMS.COM, instead of TSA_SMS.COM, so that the lines look like the following: REM ----- NetNav statements BEGIN ---- SET NETNAV=C:\NETNAV SET NETNAVC=N:\NETNAV\CODE COPY C:\NETNAV\NETNAV.SMS C: C:\NETNAV\SCHEDRUN.COM C:\NETNAV\TSASMS.COM /N= /P=NWSD /D=C /SE= REM ----- NetNav statements END ------ 3. Bindery Contexts In order for NetWare Navigator to be installed and functional, the Staging Servers and Distribution Servers need to have a bindery context set. At install time, NetWare Navigator adds some objects to the bindery. On a NetWare 4 server, these objects will go into the NetWare Directory Services context set as the server's bindery context. Once NetWare Navigator is installed, the bindery context needs to continue to be set to the context where the objects were added, in order for NetWare Navigator to continue to operate. NetWare 4.1 allows you to set up to 16 bindery contexts, so this should not affect the operation of any other applications that require bindery emulation. To set a bindery context on the server, type: SET BINDERY CONTEXT= To set multiple bindery contexts, separate each context by a colon, like the following: SET BINDERY CONTEXT=; To see what the server's bindery context is currently set to, type "SET BINDERY CONTEXT" or "CONFIG". For each context you want to set as a bindery context, you also need to make sure that the server has a writeable copy of the replica of the partition containing that context. You can ensure that it does by using the Partition Manager tool in the NetWare Administrator application. For more detailed information on setting up bindery emulation, refer to the NetWare 4.1 documentation. 4. Other Issues NetWare Navigator may experience problems if it's configuration file is compressed using NetWare 4.x compression. Flag NNSRVCFG.NET to dc (don't compress) on the Distribution server \system directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Any trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Consult your product manuals for complete trademark information. -----------------------------------------------------------------