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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!leefi
- From: leefi@microsoft.com (lee fisher)
- Subject: installing TCP/IP under Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.044304.7995@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 04:43:04 GMT
- Organization: microsoft corp., redmond, wa
- Lines: 117
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- i replied someone via email in response to a few messages about TCP/IP
- installation problems, but the email bounced. anyway, a few others are
- asking similar questions, and might benefit from this info...
-
- in general, if you are trying to get TCP/IP to work, you should install
- via the normal SETUP program, not DOS2NT (its much easier). then you
- should make sure the normal workstation software (netbeui, not yet tcp/ip)
- works (view servers, connect to server and do i/o, etc). then, once you're
- sure that the MAC driver is working with this already-installed transport,
- try to install TCP/IP. make sure to 'net start tcpipsvc'. append a
- '/trace' switch if this fails. once the TCP/IP service is starting, try
- to ping someone. look in the registry to make sure the IP masks are proper
- for your environment. then you should be golden (fingers crossed).
-
- anway, the q&a from the bounced email:
-
- > I've been having problems getting my machine hooked up to our lan.
- > First off: We have a LanMan 2.1 server that I'd like to be able to see.
- > Is this the feature that is turned off in this NT release? If not, does
- > anyone have experience with getting things going. The net seems to have
- > installed OK.
-
- no, my NT machine sees my DOS LAN Manager 2.1 machine just fine. can you
- see anything (LM21 server, NT servers, anything?) what MAC driver? look
- for a tranceiver internal/external problem.
-
- > Second: I've followed the instructions to get telnet running on TCP/IP.
- > I get the network started and I can go as far as getting the telnet
- > prompt on the terminal program... but I can't seem to open a connection.
- > Ideas... anyone?
-
- can you PING anyone? can they ping you? here is a msg, i think is in
- the readme, about using the TCP/IP utilities. maybe it will help.
-
- ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip -----
- Instructions for using TCP/IP and utilities.
-
- The Network Control Panel Applet should be used to install and
- configure TCP/IP. Once this has been completed, TCP/IP can be
- initialized by entering:
-
- net start tcpipsvc
-
- Messages will be displayed which will indicate the success or failure
- of the initialization. If this step fails, more detailed information
- as to the cause of the failure can be obtained by entering:
-
- net start tcpipsvc /trace
-
- A window will pop up and diagnostic information will be displayed.
-
- Once the tcpip service has been successfully started, the standard
- utilities can be used as normal. The only exception is the telnet
- utility, more on this later.
-
- The standard utility set provided with NT consists of arp, ftp,
- netstat, ping, rcp, rexec, route, rsh and tftp. Most of these will
- print usage help if invoked with the -? option.
-
- Telnet has been modified to work with the windows terminal program.
- To use telnet, make sure that tcpip has been initialized. Then
- enter:
-
- telnet
-
- You may then run the terminal program and select TELNET in the
- Communications menu.
-
- You will be greeted with a prompt of
-
- telnet>
-
- You may enter telnet commands or help for more info.
- ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip ----- snip -----
-
- and a second message:
-
- > Well, I managed to get all the LanMan stuff fat and happy. I can see
- > LanMan servers and they can see me! Great!
- >
- > Now to be able to connect to TCP/IP ...
- >
- > I get as far as the telnet prompt. WHen I try "open xx.x.xxx.xx" ( where
- > the x's are the ip address of the machine I'm trying to connect to) I
- > get a connect failed message.
- >
- > 1) How do I configure the TCP/IP to work... I'm not sure about all the
- > DNS stuff so currently it's all blank.
-
- how did you install TCP/IP, via SETUP, via REGINIT and tcpip.ini, or
- by manually editing via REGEDIT? hopefully, you used SETUP and installed
- the TCP/IP driver via Network Control Panel App. setting up via SETUP
- sets up the registry properly for the Network Control Panel App to work.
- if you've setup via DOS2NT, you can't use the NCPA, and you have to
- use REGINI and the TCP/IP ini file to initialize the registry for the
- transport (and update your MAC driver).
-
- regardless, if you're already setup, you can edit the registry via
- regedit.exe, select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE window, and go down into
- \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP, and edit that section.
- for more info, use the tcpip ini file as a guide to what needs to
- be changed. (it should be changed in SETUP (or before using REGINI),
- so you don't have to get into REGEDIT.
-
- > 2) Is there support for a host table?
-
- c:\winnt\system\drivers\etc\*. not sure right now, but i think the
- registry might improperly point to c:\winnt\tcp or something like
- that, you can fix this in regedit (or copy the files to that
- subdirectory).
- __
- Lee Fisher, (not a spokesperson for) Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA
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