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- TITLE: NetWare Connect Tips
- DOCUMENT ID: TID250047
- DOCUMENT REVISION: E
- DATE: 20JUN94
-
- NOVELL PRODUCT CLASS: Dial-In/Dial-Out Connectivity
- 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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-
- I. General Connect Tips
- -------------------------
- A. Everyone with NetWare Connect 1.0 should download from NOVLIB,
- Library 9 the latest "Maintenance PTFs" (currently, NWC001.EXE and
- NWC002.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 408-577-5856:
- > 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.
-
- We recommend 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
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- 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)
- t All ports in the InBound group will be available to remote users
- calling in with remote control applications (like PC AnyWhere).
-
- t 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.
- t Attempting to dial out using the InBound logical port name will
- cause an error.
-
- OutBound Port Groups
- t Use only ports that are in an OutBound group for dialing out.
-
- t OutBound Ports may be selected by group name or individual name.
-
- t If you select a port by group name, NetWare Connect will select
- an available port within the group.
-
- t If you call out with an Int14 application, use only a specific
- port name instead of a group name.
-
- t Unlike NASI, NINT14 does not release a port until NINT14 is
- unloaded. NINT14 /U
-
- InBound/OutBound Ports
- t 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
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- 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:
- t Load NASI using a valid username and password on the NetWare
- Connect server.
-
- t Run NASAIDIAG, if it works reexamine the application set up.
-
- t 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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