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- NWSerial: NetWare Serial Number Reporting Utility
- Version 1.0
- Documentation File (NWSERIAL.DOC)
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- Richard L. Hartman (RLH)
- Novell Registered Professional Developer
- 5205 North Mulvaney Court, Spokane, WA 99212-1611
- 509-924-6576 (voice) 509-926-4626 (fax) CompuServe 76350,2275
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- INTRODUCTION
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-
- FPServer is licensed on a per-file-server basis through the use of
- SoftKeys. SoftKeys are derived from the serial number of the copy of
- NetWare running on the file server(s) to be licensed. The serial number is
- embedded within each copy of NetWare and can be read by the Supervisor via
- Novell's SYSCON utility.
-
- However, switching from file server to file server and writing down serial
- numbers is inconvenient, time consuming, and error prone. The NWSerial
- utility (NWSERIAL.EXE) eliminates this hassle by producing a printed list
- of all accessible file servers and their corresponding NetWare serial
- numbers.
-
- NWSerial may be used by any logged in user - it is not necessary to be
- logged in as Supervisor.
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- RUNNING NWSERIAL
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-
- Running NWSerial is simplicity itself. There are no command line
- parameters, no setup files, no preparations. Just log in as any valid user
- and run the program:
-
- NWSERIAL <enter>
-
- NWSerial will identify all accessible file servers - even across bridges -
- and attempt to establish a temporary login as GUEST. If GUEST requires a
- password, you will be given the option to specify a different username
- and/or password. Any login account may be used; no special rights or
- privileges are necessary for NWSerial to obtain the NetWare serial numbers.
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- OBTAINING THE LIST
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- After all file servers have been scanned, NWSerial will display their names
- and NetWare serial numbers in the exact format required for FPServer
- registration. Far more convenient, however, is the ability to send this
- output information directly to a disk file or printer.
-
- You may do this with the DOS redirection character (">") right on the
- command line. For example, to send the list to a disk file named
- SERIAL.TXT, type:
-
- NWSERIAL >SERIAL.TXT <enter>
-
- ...and a pure ASCII text file will be written to disk. You may also send
- the list to a printer with:
-
- NWSERIAL >LPT1 <enter>
-
- ...which will send the same pure ASCII text information to the first
- parallel port.