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- NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT
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- TITLE: NetWare Connect Tips
- DOCUMENT ID: TID250047
- DOCUMENT REVISION: D
- DATE: 10MAY94
- ALERT STATUS: Yellow
- INFORMATION TYPE: Issue
- README FOR: NA
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- NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
- NetWare Connect 1.0
-
- ABSTRACT:
-
- This file includes Technical Tips for NetWare Connect.
-
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- 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.
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-
- ISSUE
-
- I. General Connect Tips
- -------------------------
-
- A. Everyone with NetWare Connect 1.0 should download from
- NOVLIB, Library 9 the latest "Maintenance PTFs"
- (currently, PTF442.EXE and PTF440.EXE).
-
- Also, consider downloading the latest version of
- NWCMOD.EXE.
-
- - If your AIOMDMS.MDC is dated before 12/15/93, you
- should download NWCMOD.EXE to correct potential
- problems with all modems.
-
- - Even if your AIOMDMS.MDC is dated after 12/14/93,
- you may want to download the latest NWCMOD.EXE to
- get support for additional modems. NWCMOD.EXE
- will be updated periodically.
-
- These three "patches" correct many problems. They
- should be applied before any trouble shooting is
- done.
-
- B. Modems
-
- 1. If your modem is not included on the NetWare
- Connect menu, do the following:
-
- - Check the latest NWCMOD.EXE on NetWire to see
- if your modem has been added yet.
-
- - If it has not, you can have it added by
- FAXing the manual pages that deal with the
- following to Bob LoFaso at 408-577-7598:
- > AT commands
- > Sregisters
- > Responses
-
- - Try a similar modem; its initialization
- string may fit your modem.
-
- 2. If you choose "Hayes Compatible," (within NetWare
- Connect), the maximum speed is 4800 bps.
-
- 3. The NetWare Connect modem scripts do not turn on
- modem hardware compression. Instead, if you have
- EMS memory, compression is performed in the
- computers RAM. This should not result in a
- performance decrease. However, if you do not have
- EMS available and will not be using ARAS, you may
- enable V.42 with an additional initialization
- string.
-
- C. When using V.42 modems with NetWare Connect, you may
- see a NCS incoming call processed by NetWare Connect as
- an ARAS connection followed by the phone hanging up.
-
- This is caused because of a conflict between the
- AppleTalk Remote Access 1.0 connection negotiation and
- the modems V.42 negotiation.
-
- Novell recommends one of the following solutions:
-
- 1. Do not use the ARAS service of NetWare Connect,
- and add an "Additional Modem Initialization"
- string in the NetWare Connect modem configuration
- field that enables modem V.42 compression.
-
- Note: If it is necessary to support ARAS dial in
- users, choose solution 2.
-
- 2. Disable V.42 error control at the NCS client side
- by appropriately configuring the NCS application
- being used.
-
- If this is not possible, define a unique set of
- ports to be used for ARAS connections and on all
- remaining ports, enable hardware V.42 compression
- in the modems through the NetWare Connect modem
- configuration (as in solution 1).
-
- D. NetWare Connect should not be installed in a NetWare
- 4.x server until you have applied PTF 442 and PTF 440.
-
- All registered owners of 8 port or 32 port NetWare
- Connect have been sent a CD-ROM with RunTime NetWare
- 4.01.
-
- E. With a Digiboard, you may experience framing errors or
- abends.
-
- If you experience these problems, or others, when using
- a DigiBoard, call Digiboard (800-344-4273 or
- 612-943-9020) and get the latest driver from them.
-
- F. The first AIO multi-port board should always be board
- 0, and the first AIO port should be port 0.
-
- The mapping should look similar to the following:
-
- (DRIVER_NAME,0,0)
-
- where DRIVER_NAME is the currently loaded AIO driver.
-
- On the board driver LOAD line, put NODE=0 for the first
- board, NODE=1 for the second board, and so forth.
- (Note: The WNIM board neither supports nor requires a
- NODE= statement).
-
- Example: load AIODGXI port=200 mem=d0000 node=0.
-
- G. Question:
-
- The LOAD Btrieve description on page 1-29 and page 4-5
- differ. Which is correct?
-
- Answer:
-
- Page 1-29 has a typographical error. Page 4-5 is
- correct.
-
- H. Do not load LSLENH or MSM31X in a NetWare 3.12 server
- (including RunTime).
-
- I. If you have problems connecting, it may be a modem
- problem. Try modem selections that are similar to your
- modem. Also drop the baud rate. A useful tool is to
- use a null modem cable and do a direct connect to the
- NetWare Connect server.
-
- K. If you use "Modem Independence," the modem strings will
- be supplied by NetWare Connect instead of the
- application:
-
- 1. If you use Modem Independence, inform the
- application that the modem type is "Hayes
- Compatible. The modem strings will be comprised
- of the basic Hayes Command set.
-
- 2. Expect a significant delay in the dialing. The
- delay is caused by NetWare Connect "translating"
- the initialization string.
-
- 3. Applications vary in their efficiency in relating
- to Modem Independence. If you experience problems
- with ports in a modem independence group,
- disabling modem independence may help.
-
- II. NASI/NCS Connect Tips
- --------------------------
-
- A. The /NS parameter is provided for use with applications
- that are aware of it and prepared to take over the
- security role. No such applications yet exist.
-
- For the present, do not use the /NS parameter.
- However, if you want to decrease the amount of security
- involved in LOGIN, see pages 9, 10, and 11 of the
- NetWare Connect Addendum.
-
- B. Users calling in or out with a remote control
- application must use a name and password that exist in
- the bindery of the NetWare Connect server. Passwords
- must consist of only alpha-numeric characters without
- spaces.
-
- C. The NCS service allows you to define both OutBound and
- InBound port groups:
-
- InBound Port Group (One per server)
-
- All ports in the InBound group will be available
- to remote users calling in with remote control
- applications (like PC AnyWhere).
-
- All the ports in the InBound group will have a
- single logical port name consisting of the first
- eight characters of the NetWare Connect server
- name plus "dialin."
-
- For example, if the server name is
- "Communications," the logical port name will be
- COMMUNICDIALIN.
-
- All workstations and application servers put in
- the host mode must use that logical port name.
-
- Attempting to dial out using the InBound logical
- port name will cause an error.
-
- OutBound Port Groups
-
- Use only ports that are in an OutBound group for
- dialing out.
-
- OutBound Ports may be selected by group name or
- individual name.
-
- If you select a port by group name, NetWare
- Connect will select an available port within the
- group.
-
- If you call out with an Int14 application, use
- only a specific port name instead of a group name.
-
- Unlike NASI, NINT14 does not release a port until
- NINT14 is unloaded. NINT14 /U
-
- InBound/OutBound Ports
-
- A port may be placed in both the InBound group and
- one or more OutBound groups. This allows InBound
- ports to be used for OutBound calls except when a
- remote user is actually connected.
-
- D. If your application supports both NASI and Int14,
- choose NASI when using NetWare Connect.
-
- 1. Few, if any, Int14 applications go faster than
- 9,600 (at least not in this environment.)
-
- 2. As described in the manual, NetWare Connect
- supports only the basic Int14 features.
-
- 3. You must run NASI to be able to run Int14. The
- reverse is not true.
-
- E. A NASI.DLL file is available to any developer who
- requests it. It will be of use to users only after
- applications are developed with hooks for it.
-
- F. The only remote control applications that are supported
- through NCS are the ones that support NASI. They are
- usually identified as the "LAN Version."
-
- G. NetWare Connect NCS Dialback
-
- To use NCS Dialback with Netware Connect 1.0, you must
- choose between the following two options:
-
- Option 1:
-
- If you will be using the remote-control software's (PC
- Anywhere LAN 4.5 or Reachout 3.3) dialback instead of
- NetWare Connect's dialback, configure NCS to work like
- the old NACS 3.0 product.
-
- This option has two drawbacks:
-
- - As each PC is put into host mode, it will tie up a
- NWC port.
-
- - The remote caller will not be prompted for user id
- and password.
-
- To use option 1, do the following:
-
- Do not add a port group into the DIAL-IN Group
- field under NCS configuration under configure
- service. NCS will then broadcast the ports like
- NACS 3.0.
-
- Option 2
-
- If you will be using NetWare Connect's dialback
- function instead of the remote control software's
- dialback, use the DIAL-IN Group field in NCS
- configuration.
-
- This option has one drawback:
-
- The remote user must manually put their PC into
- Auto Answer (Host) Mode during the interval
- between dialing in and receiving NetWare Connect's
- dialback.
-
- To use option 2, do the following:
-
- 1. Within the third-party remote control software,
- disable Dialback.
-
- 2. Within NetWare Connect, do the following:
-
- a. Go into Configure Security under
- Configuration Options.
-
- b. Choose Set User Parameters.
-
- c. Choose a user (the same user as the NASI
- defined user on the host PC).
-
- d. Choose dialback mode option, "Force
- Dialback".
-
- III. NRN Connect Tips
- ------------------------
-
- A. The frame type bound to RNS in the server must match
- the frame type on the NRN client that will be calling
- in to the server.
-
- B. The NET.CFG file on the remote NRN client must specify
- a preferred server for the shell to be able to find a
- server. Also the SET REPLY TO GET NEAREST SERVER=ON
- parameter at the server console.
-
- C. When running NRN/Dialcon and MS Windows in enhanced
- mode, serial port contention problems will occur unless
- the SYSTEM.INI of the remote workstation is modified to
- lock Windows out of the port used by NetWare Connect.
-
- Adding one of the following case sensitive lines to the
- 386enh section of the SYSTEM.INI file corrects the
- problem:
-
- MaxComPort=0
-
- Locks Windows out of all the remote workstations
- serial ports.
-
- COM1Irq=-1
-
- Locks Windows out of port 1.
-
- COM2Irq=-1
-
- Locks Windows out of port 2.
-
- D. If you will be using the servers comm ports, AIOCOMX
- will report the UART detected. (NRN.COM will only
- report the presence of a 16550 UART on the remote
- workstation, it does not report other UARTs.)
-
- 1. If it is a 16550 UART, you can safely operate at
- up to 19,200 bps.
-
- 2. If you have not applied PTF436 (or PTF439 or
- PTF442) and it is a 8250 UART or 16450 UART, you
- should not try to operate at speeds over 2,400
- bps.
-
- 3. If you have applied PTF436 (or later) and it is a
- 8250 or 16450, you can safely operate at up to
- 4,800 bps, or in many cases, up to 9,600 bps.
-
- E. Before running TCP/IP and IPX over Remote Node, do the
- following:
-
- 1. Edit the NWCSTART.NCF file and load RNS once with
- the frame type of ethernet_II.
-
- 2. Bind IPX to RNS and also bind IP to RNS.
-
- 3. At the NRN workstation, edit the NET.CFG file to
- use ethernet_II frame.
-
- 4. At this point, load the following files:
-
- LSL.COM
- NRN.COM
- DIALCON.EXE
- IPXODI.COM
- TCPIP.EXE
- NETX.EXE
- LOGIN.EXE
-
- You should now be logged into the NetWare server
- and should be able to PING to any IP host.
-
- F. To run TCP/IP over remote node, you must specify the
- node address for the driver in the NET.CFG file. This
- statement should go in the Link Driver NRN heading.
-
- G. If you find that you lose IP connections after 6
- minutes of complete inactivity, load RNS with the
- parameter EB.
-
- H. Node Address
-
- Each NetWare Connect Remote Node, must have a node
- address which is unlike any other on the WAN.
-
- On an Ethernet or Token Ring LAN this unique address
- would be supplied by a 12 digit hex address burned into
- the network board.
-
- Example:
-
- 1a2b3c4d5e6f
-
- However, NetWare Connect Remote Mode connections use a
- serial port instead of a network board; therefore, the
- unique address must be specified during configuration.
-
- Only two hex digits are needed to supply enough node
- numbers for the maximum number of workstations which
- can supported by Netware Connect through Remote Node.
- The digits used by NRN are the seventh and eighth
- digits of the 12 digit number. All other digits should
- be filled in with zeros.
-
- Example:
-
- 000000nn0000 (where n is a hex number from 0 to
- F)
-
- The six leading zeros may be omitted if desired;
- however, the four trailing zeros must be present as
- place holders.
-
- I. On the Connect server, the subnet mask for all adapters
- must be the same and the network addresses must be
- unique (use the same rules you would for any two or
- more adapters in the server).
-
- J. Symptom:
-
- User authentication fails in Dialcon.
-
- Solution:
-
- Ensure that the user name and password exists in
- the bindery of the NetWare Connect server.
-
- K. A workstation cannot run NRN until it logs out of its
- local LAN. IPX will not bind to both the serial driver
- and the network board.
-
- L. Symptom:
-
- (RNS/NRN) is unable to attach to a server using
- NETX.
-
- Solutions:
-
- 1. Make sure you have selected the correct frame type
- for RNS.
-
- 2. Make sure the client side has been updated with
- the latest NetWare Connect PTFs and DOSUP9 or
- WINUP9.
-
- 3. If 1 and 2 do not correct the problem, do the
- following:
-
- - Put a preferred server statement in NET.CFG.
-
- - Set Reply to Get Nearest Server to ON.
-
- M. Symptom:
-
- NCS application unable to attach to port.
-
- Solution:
-
- Load NASI using a valid username and password on
- the NetWare Connect server.
-
- Run NASAIDIAG, if it works reexamine the
- application set up.
-
- If you are using the comm ports on the server, try
- lowering the baud rate in Port Configuration and
- in the Application.
-
-
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