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NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: FLeX/IP 1.2B Running with NetWare 4.01 & 3.x DOCUMENT ID: TID000563 DOCUMENT REVISION: B DATE: 03DEC93 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Symptom Solution README FOR: FLX146.EXE NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: NetWare FLeX/IP 1.2 ABSTRACT: This patch is neccessary for FLeX/IP 1.2B to run on both the NW 4.01 and NW 3.12 platforms. It also includes fixes for FTPSERV.NLM, PLPD, LPR_GWY and XCONSOLE.NLM. Please read this document for instructions on how to apply this patch. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Self-Extracting File Name: FLX146.EXE Revision: B Files Included Size Date Time Version \ FLX146.TXT (This File) LPR_IP.ISC 79204 05-04-93 3:55p PLPDDEF.EXE 184719 11-12-90 12:12a PRINTDEF.HLP 36714 05-29-90 2:41p BCASTLIB.NLM 904 05-06-93 10:16a INETDFIX.NLM 733 05-06-93 11:37a LPR_IP.SCO 73024 05-04-93 3:56p PATCH.EXE 78129 01-19-93 12:18a LPRINST 2515 05-04-93 3:54p LPSTAT.ISC 65592 05-04-93 3:56p LPSTAT.SCO 60076 05-04-93 3:56p FLX40.BAT 4924 05-27-93 10:15a FLX311.BAT 4623 05-27-93 10:12a INSTALL.BAT 507 05-27-93 10:23a HOWTOPA.TCH 315 05-27-93 10:29a PTF-F146.RTP 65724 06-17-93 2:57p LPR_PSRV.NLM 53696 05-06-93 11:36a LPR_GWY.NLM 23390 05-06-93 11:31a XCONSOLE.NLM 80041 05-24-93 9:55a PLPD.NLM 43216 05-17-93 4:14p RPCBSTUB.NLM 736 05-06-93 10:45a FILTER.NLM 18932 05-06-93 10:45a FLTRLIB.NLM 2315 05-06-93 10:44a NetWare FLeX/IP Patch for NetWare 4.01 Release Document FLX146.TXT Copyright (c) 1993 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved. THIS WORK IS SUBJECT TO U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAWS AND TREATIES. NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED, PRACTICED, PERFORMED, COPIED, DISTRIBUTED, REVISED, MODIFIED, TRANSLATED, ABRIDGED, CONDENSED, EXPANDED, COLLECTED, COMPILED, LINKED, RECAST, TRANSFORMED, OR ADAPTED WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF NOVELL, INC. ANY USE OR EXPLOITATION OF THIS WORK WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION COULD SUBJECT THE PERPETRATOR TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LIABILITY. ********************************************************** CAUTION ********************************************************** ALWAYS backup your system before implementing any program/utility revision involving the low-level functions of NetWare including re-linking of operating system .OBJ files, Bindery utilities, and drive and volume operation. This document includes the following sections: PURPOSE OF THIS PATCH UPDATES TO FLeX/IP USING XCONSOLE USING UNIX-TO-NETWARE PRINTING (PLPD) USING NETWARE-TO-UNIX PRINTING (LPR_GWY) LP PRINT CLIENT SOFTWARE FOR SCO OR INTERACTIVE UNIX USING TOKEN-RING BOARDS USING THIS PATCH WITH NETWARE 4.01 CONFIGURING THE SOFTWARE TO RUN WITH NETWARE 4.01 USING THE DIFFERENT MODES OF PCONSOLE CONFIGURING UNIX-TO-NETWARE PRINTING (PLPD) CONFIGURING NETWARE-TO-UNIX PRINTING (LPR_GWY) CONTROLLING JOBS CONFIGURING DEVICES AND FORMS USING PLPDDEF INSTALLING THE PATCH PURPOSE OF THIS PATCH --------------------- This patch allows the NetWare FLeX/IP product to run on a NetWare 4.01 server and also provides updates to NetWare FLeX/IP running on a NetWare 3.X server. Although this patch allows the NetWare FLeX/IP product to run correctly on a NetWare 4.01 Server, it does not allow FLeX/IP to take advantage of all of the new features in NetWare 4.01, such as NetWare Directory Services (NDS), and enabling for National Language Support and double-byte character sets. After you apply this patch, the patched NLMs must be run in Ring 0 on NetWare 4.01 servers. UPDATES TO FLeX/IP ------------------ The following sections provide updates to the existing NetWare FLeX/IP product running on a NetWare 3.X or NetWare 4.01 server. USING XCONSOLE -------------- USING XCONSOLE WHEN A FILE SERVER IS LOCKED ------------------------------------------- In previous versions of NetWare FLeX/IP, it was possible for an XConsole user to bypass a file server lock after the console screen was locked using the MONITOR utility. The user could unlock the screen by typing <Ctrl-z>, which displayed the "Select Screen" menu. From this menu the user could access the Console Screen and unload monitor NLM. This patch fixes this problem by disabling <Ctrl-z> when a file server lock is set from the MONITOR utility. USING XCONSOLE WITH HOST PRESENTER ---------------------------------- When an XConsole session is terminated from Host Presenter "File Menu" without pressing <Ctrl-X>, or from TNVT220 by switching back to the terminal <Alt-t> and then exiting the session (q), the following error message appears in the audit log: Xconsole-Error: :Telnetd failed writing to client, reason - an asynchronous event has occurred You should ignore this error message. KEY MAPPING IN XCONSOLE ----------------------- If your terminal does not have the <Backspace> key or you prefer to use the <Delete> key (on the main keypad) for the "Erase Previous Character" operation, then you can use <Ctrl-h> or re-map your delete key to send the code XK_Backspace. USING AN ICON DURING AN XCONSOLE SESSION ---------------------------------------- When you XConsole iconize an XConsole session, the icon name is the NetWare server name instead of "NetWare". USING A 24 LINE TERMINAL WITH XCONSOLE -------------------------------------- If you load XConsole with the /24 switch as follows: :load xconsole /24 Lines 2 through 25 of the NetWare Server's Console will be displayed. The first line will not be displayed. USING UNIX-TO-NETWARE PRINTING (PLPD) ------------------------------------- PRINTING A BANNER PAGE ---------------------- In previous versions of NetWare FLeX/IP, you could not print a banner if you selected the "None" filter option from within the UNIX-to-NetWare Print menu of the FLEXCON utility or from within the PLPDCFG utility. A banner will now be printed in this case, unless you disable the banner using the "-J/nb" option of the LPR command. Most LP print clients send their print requests with banner page and trailing form feed enabled by default. If the LP print client sends a special title switch "/nff/nb" to PLPD in the -J option of lpr, PLPD overrides the client's request and suppresses both trailing formfeed and the banner page for that particular print job. For example: lpr -Pnetware -J/nff/nb <filename> For banner page suppression only, you should use the lpr -h switch or the lpr -J/nb switch. For trailing formfeed suppression only, you should use the lpr -J/nff switch. PLPD ERROR MESSAGES ------------------- When printing under busy conditions, you might see the following error message on the PKERNEL message screen at NetWare v3.1x servers (the message does not appear on NetWare 4.01 servers: PLPD-Error: Cannot create temporary spool file If printing appears to be normal, ignore this error message. If a job appears to take a long time to print, you should update the CLIB.NLM to version 3.11d or greater. New version of CLIB.NLM is available from NetWire NOVLIB Forum. USING NETWARE-TO-UNIX PRINTING (LPR_GWY) ---------------------------------------- In previous versions of NetWare FLeX/IP, the server would crash when the print gateway tried to connect to a remote host where the printer was off-line or not available. This no longer happens. In previous versions of NetWare FLeX/IP, the LPR_GWY did not handle the "T" and "H" flags of the control file properly. The LPR_GWY will now handle these flags and send the proper print control information to the UNIX lpr print server. LP PRINT CLIENT SOFTWARE FOR SCO OR INTERACTIVE UNIX ---------------------------------------------------- This patch updates the files that allow printing from SCO and Interactive Unix v3.2 print clients. Now that SCO and Interactive have their own lp implementation, you should use the lpr support from SCO or ISC whenever possible. USING TOKEN-RING BOARDS ----------------------- When using Token-Ring boards, the maximum size of receive buffers must be set to 4202. To setup this server configuration when the server is restarted, add the following line to the STARTUP.NCF file: set maximum physical receive packet size=4202 USING THIS PATCH WITH NETWARE 4.01 ---------------------------------- The following sections describe important information that you should know before using FLeX/IP on a NetWare 4.01 server. CONFIGURING THE SOFTWARE TO RUN WITH NETWARE 4.01 ------------------------------------------------- Bindery emulation is an essential part of running NetWare FLeX/IP on a NetWare 4.01 server. Before you use this patch, you must plan and then set up bindery emulation on your NetWare 4.01 server. Novell recommends that you use the NetWare 4.01 documentation and the June 1993 edition of NetWare Application Notes entitled "NetWare 4.0 Bindery Emulation: An Overview" to set up bindery emulation. The Bindery Context must be set on this server for this patch to work correctly. You must set the Bindery Context to the position in the directory tree where the server's volumes are located. For example, if the server volumes are located in OU=Department.O=Company you would have the following line in your AUTOEXEC.NCF file SET BINDERY CONTEXT = OU=Department.O=Company To view the server's current bindery emulation context, type SET BINDERY CONTEXT <Enter> This command displays the server's current bindery emulation context. USING THE GROUP EVERYONE ------------------------ In NetWare 4.01, the group EVERYONE is not automatically created and updated as it is in NetWare 3.X. For example, if you create a user object before you create the group EVERYONE, the user object does not get added when you create the group EVERYONE in NetWare 4.01. If you upgraded from a NetWare 3.X server, then the group EVERYONE was updated during installation. If you installed NetWare 4.01 on a clean server, and the group EVERYONE does not exist, you should create the group and add users to it. When using NetWare 4.01, you must remember that using the group EVERYONE does not automatically mean that all users will have access to a service. Whenever you add a new queue, print server, or any object where the group EVERYONE is granted rights to use the service, you must check that all users are members of the group EVERYONE. For example, if you use the PLPD and LPR_GWY NLMs, and you give the group EVERYONE access to these services, it is your responsibility to make sure that all users are included in the group EVERYONE. In this case, any user trying to print that is not in the group EVERYONE will be denied queue access. USING THE DIFFERENT MODES OF PCONSOLE ------------------------------------- The new PCONSOLE utility has two modes of operation. When you run PCONSOLE on a NetWare 4.01 server, it starts in Directory Services mode. If you press the <F4> key from within PCONSOLE, it enters Bindery mode. When you are in Bindery mode, you can view queues, printers, and print servers created using the FLEXCON utility because the FLEXCON utility creates only bindery objects. Some bindery objects can also be accessed from the Directory Services mode, but remember that Directory Services replaces all underscores in bindery names with spaces. For example, if you create a print server named "ps_for_lab" using the FLEXCON utility, its name would appear as "ps for lab" from the Directory Services mode of PCONSOLE. The <F4> key allows you to switch between the two modes of operation (Bindery mode and Directory Services mode). Before you use the Bindery mode you must be logged into the current server as a user in the Bindery Context. IMPORTANT: ADMIN can only use Bindery mode if ADMIN is in the current Bindery context. CONFIGURING UNIX TO NETWARE PRINTING (PLPD) ------------------------------------------- You may use the NetWare 4.01 PCONSOLE utility and the FLEXCON utility to configure UNIX-to-NetWare printing. You use PCONSOLE to create and associate queues, printers, and print servers and the PLPDCFG to select queues for use by UNIX printing, trusted hosts, and user account mapping. The following sections describe the configuration procedure. IMPORTANT: You also have the ability to create queues using the FLEXCON and PLPDCFG utilities, but Novell strongly suggests that you do not create queues using this method. If you create a queue using either the FLEXCON or PLPDCFG utilities, the queue will provide UNIX-to-NetWare printing, but your ability to control and view jobs through PCONSOLE will be limited. CONFIGURING USING PCONSOLE -------------------------- The following configuration can be done from either mode of PCONSOLE. 1. From a NetWare 4.01 client, log into the NetWare 4.01 Directory and run the PCONSOLE utility. 2. Create queues, printers, and print servers from within PCONSOLE. Remember that you need to associate each queue with a printer, and then specify which printers are serviced by each print queue. The NetWare 4.01 Print Services Manual describes how to use the new PCONSOLE utility in detail. >From within the "Queue Information" and "Print Server Information" menus, the administrator also needs to specify users for the queues and print servers used by PLPD. If you use the group named EVERYONE, it is important that you check to make sure that all users are included in the group EVERYONE (see the section titled "Using the Group Everyone" at the beginning of this document.) IMPORTANT: The print queues that you create for use by the FLeX/IP product must reside on a volume that physically resides on the server where the FLeX/IP product is running. CONFIGURING USING THE UNIX-TO-NETWARE MENU OF FLEXCON ----------------------------------------------------- The configuration procedure for UNIX-to-NetWare printing using the FLEXCON utility has not changed for this patch. When mapping users, it is important to know that the user named GUEST might not exist in NetWare 4.01. If you upgraded your server from a NetWare 3.X server to a NetWare 4.01 server, the user named GUEST was created, but if you installed on a clean server, the user named GUEST does not exist. If you cannot find the user named GUEST, you can create the user named GUEST from the NETADMIN utility, or you can map UNIX users to a different NetWare account. CONFIGURING NETWARE-TO-UNIX PRINTING (LPR_GWY) ---------------------------------------------- You configure NetWare-to-UNIX printing using the FLEXCON utility. The configuration procedure for using the FLEXCON utility has not changed for this patch. The following sections describe the relationship between PCONSOLE objects (queues, printers, and print servers) and the FLEXCON utility. PRINTERS -------- Printers created using the FLEXCON utility are only visible from the Bindery mode of PCONSOLE. QUEUES & PRINT SERVERS ---------------------- Queues and Print Servers are visible from both modes in PCONSOLE. OBJECT NAMES ------------ PCONSOLE replaces all underscores in object names with spaces. For example, if you create a print server named "ps_for_lab" using the FLEXCON utility, its name appears as "ps for lab" in the Directory Services mode of PCONSOLE. IMPORTANT: When you create queues using the FLEXCON utility, the group named EVERYONE is assigned as the only queue user. It is important to check that the group named EVERYONE includes all users that need to print from NetWare-to-UNIX using the this queue. PCONSOLE can be used to add users to the group EVERYONE, or to restrict access to the queue. New queue users can be assigned from within PCONSOLE. CONTROLLING JOBS ---------------- You can use the PCONSOLE utility to control jobs for both PLPD and LPR_GWY. UNIX TO NETWARE PRINTING: ------------------------- You can remove pending jobs from queues and control printers by using the Directory Services mode of PCONSOLE. NETWARE-TO-UNIX PRINTING: ------------------------- You can remove queued jobs from a specific queue using the Directory Services mode of PCONSOLE. If you want to control printers created by the FLEXCON utility, you must enter the Bindery mode of PCONSOLE by pressing the <F4> key. (Printers created using the FLEXCON utility display only under Bindery mode.) You must be a Print Server operator to enter Bindery mode and change the status of the printer. If you need to create a print server operator within the bindery context, log in as ADMIN and create an operator using the Directory services mode of PCONSOLE. After you add the new operator, you must unload and then reload the LPR_GWY and LPR_SRV so that the changes take effect. CONFIGURING DEVICES AND FORMS FOR PLPD USING PLPDDEF ---------------------------------------------------- PLPD does not work with the new PRINTDEF utility supplied with NetWare 4.01. A new DOS client utility named PLPDDEF is supplied with this patch to allow users to configure print devices and forms for PLPD. This new utility has the same user interface as the PRINTDEF utility distributed with NetWare 3.X. The PLPDDEF utility allows PLPD users to configure forms and print devices (printers and plotters), which are used by PLPD. In most cases, the PLPDDEF utility operates similarly to the NetWare 4.01 PRINTDEF utility. There are two main differences between the two utilities. The first is that the PRINTDEF utility requires a context setting because it stores information in the NetWare 4.01 Directory, while the PLPDDEF utility does not have a context. The second difference is that the PLPDDEF utility stores information in SYS:PUBLIC/NET$PRN.DAT. This database cannot be shared by the PRINTDEF utility in NetWare 4.01 or by multiple servers. In general, the documentation on the PRINTDEF utility supplied with NetWare 3.X or NetWare 4.01 can be used with the PLPDDEF utility except for any NetWare 4.01 references to setting a Context. USING PLPDDEF: -------------- After logging into the NFS Server, change directories to SYS:PUBLIC of the server where the FLeX/IP NLMs are loaded and run the PLPDDEF program. Warning: You must be logged into the server as a user located within the Bindery Context. If you are logged in as user1 and your Bindery Context is set to OU=department.O=company, then user1 must be located within the directory OU=department.O=company. INSTALLING THE PATCH -------------------- This patch updates the NetWare FLeX/IP product on NetWare 3.X servers and incorporates extended features to run on NetWare 4.01 by patching the files listed below. After the patch is applied to the files, they will match the version number shown in the second column. MODULE VERSION PLPD.NLM 1.27b PKERNEL.NLM 2.20b XCONSOLE.NLM 1.27b NFS.NAM 1.27b V_NFS.NLM 1.20b RPCBSTUB.NLM 1.20b FILTER.NLM 1.20b FLTRLIB.NLM 1.20b PLPDCFG.NLM 1.20b LPR_PSRV.NLM 1.20b LPR_GWY.NLM 1.20b FTPSERV.NLM 1.20b INETD.NLM 1.20b FLEXCON.NLM 1.27b BCASTLIB.NLM (3.X only) 1.20b INETDFIX.NLM (3.X only) 1.20b PLPDDEF.EXE (4.01 only) Not Applicable PRINTDEF.HLP (4.01 only) Not Applicable FILES FOR THIS PATCH -------------------- PLPDDEF.EXE PRINTDEF.HLP FLX146.TXT PTF-F146.RTP PATCH.EXE BCASTLIB.NLM INETDFIX.NLM FLX311.BAT FLX40.BAT PREPARING TO INSTALL -------------------- Before you start the PATCH procedure, make sure you have the following: >> NetWare FLeX/IP installed on your server. >> Workstation with a floppy disk drive with the same format as the distribution diskette and 1MB of disk space. >> Patch files on hard disk.. >> You must have 2 Mb of disk space to apply this patch. Before you begin this procedure, you must login to the server as ADMIN or SUPERVISOR from a DOS workstation. This patch installation procedure makes the following assumptions: Drive C: is assumed for all activities on the local hard drive. Drive F: is assumed for all activities related to the NetWare server. Make sure that you substitute the correct drive letters for the ones listed above if your configuration is different. You need to create a temporary directory for this procedure named TEMP1. If this name is already used on this workstation, use another name for the temporary directory where TEMP1 is specified in this procedure. PATCHING THE NLMS FROM A DOS WORKSTATION ------------------------------------------ 1.Create a temporary directory on the workstation. This directory will contain the PATCH files and the NLMs. (This procedure assumes the temporary directory is created on drive C:. Substitute the actual drive letter to be used for C:.) C:> MKDIR \TEMP1 <Enter> 2.Change to the temporary directory. C: CD \TEMP1 <Enter> 3.Copy the patch files to the temporary directory. The following instruction assumes that you are copying the patch files from a diskette in the A: drive. COPY A:*.* 4.Map drive F: to SYS: MAP F:=SYS: <Enter> 5.Make sure that a search dive is mapped to the SYS:PUBLIC directory. 6.Perform one of the following instructions: If you are running NetWare v3.X, type: FLX311 F: <Enter> If you are running NetWare v4.01, type: FLX40 F: <Enter> 7.Down the server. 8.If you are running NetWare 3.X, copy the file named _NFS.NLM to the server's boot directory. If you are running NetWare 4.01, copy the files named NFS.NAM and V_NFS.NLM to the server's boot directory. 9.Reboot the server. The FLeX/IP product is now updated to include the patch.