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- Intel NetportExpressTM XL Print Server
- Netport Manager Version 2.5
- Extract from Release Notes README.WRI
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- New features and important information about this release
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- Contents
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- 1. About Netport Manager
- **2. New: Novell* NetWare* Directory Services (NDS) Support
- **3. New: LANDeskT Management System SnapIn
- **4. New: LANDesk Alert Management System (AMS) Support
- **5. New: DMI and MIF Setup Support
- 6. Upgrading the Application Code for an XL
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- 1 About Netport Manager
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- Netport Manager is the Windows* application that you use to configure
- the NetportExpress XL print server. You can use Netport Manager to
- configure all other models of Netport print servers, including the
- NetportExpress EL, Netport II and the original Netport print server.
- You can run Netport Manager with Windows 3.1, but Netport Manager
- currently does not run under OS/2*.
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- This release of Netport Manager includes:
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- - Support for Novell NetWare Directory Services (NDS). You can load
- Netport Manager on an NDS workstation to configure the XL for
- either NDS printing or bindery printing.
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- - Support for the LANDesk Alert Management System. You can be notified
- about and respond to print server events such as "printer offline"
- from the LANDesk system.
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- - "SnapIn" of the NetportExpress print server, so that you can "see"
- the NetportExpress XL from the LANDesk system.
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- - Support for DMI and MIF Setup.
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- 6 Upgrading the Application Code for an XL
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- There are two choices:
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- - You can save the new Application Code on a different RBL server than the
- current one. This choice allows you to gradually introduce Netports with
- NDS support into your environment.
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- - You can save the new Application Code on the current RBL server. This
- choice requires you to update all Netport XL and EL print servers, both
- Ethernet and Token Ring, even if you use the new software on only one XL or EL.
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- To verify that your Netport has the correct RBL and Application Code, check the
- status from Netport Manager.
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- The software uses Flash memory, allowing Intel to provide you with enhanced
- functionality while preserving your hardware investment. See the product
- documentation and online Help for information about installing and configuring
- your XL or EL, and how to update the Flash memory and the Application Code on
- the RBL file server.
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- Novell NetWare: The Application Code is stored in the SYS:LOGIN directory of
- the RBL file server. After you install a new version of Netport Manager, it
- then copies the new Application Code to the SYS:LOGIN directory of the RBL file
- server(s) you specify as part of the XL configuration.
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- To upgrade the Application Code for a configured XL
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- 1 Start Netport Manager and select the Netport you want to upgrade.
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- 2 Choose Configure.
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- 3 Choose Netport Hardware. Click Change RBL. The Remote Boot Load (RBL)
- Server field shows the current RBL file server. You can update the
- Application Code on this RBL server or select another.
-
- 4 Choose OK. Netport Manager copies the latest version of the Application
- Code to the RBL server. Other XLs that use the same RBL file server will
- be upgraded when you reset them.
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- To update the RBL Flash for a configured XL
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- 1 Start Netport Manager and select the Netport print server you want to upgrade.
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- 2 From the Utilities Menu, choose the Update RBL Flash option.
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- 3 Select the new NFLASH.NET file that you want to use to update the Netport print server.
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- To update LAN Manager installations
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- This update is necessary for you to use a NetBIOS server as an RBL server.
- To do this, you'll have to stop and restart the NetBIOS Monitor.
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- 1 From the Netport Manager Manage menu, choose NetBIOS Monitor. You see the
- Netport Print Monitor Shutdown window.
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- 2 Select the Monitor Server you want to shut down. Click OK.
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- 3 From the LAN Manager server, run the INSTALL.CMD file from Disk #2 of the
- Netport Manager installation disks. This updates the LMNPMON.EXE program.
-
- Note: .CMD only runs in OS/2 environments.
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- ** See README.WRI for details