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- Workstation for OS/2 Issues
-
- Remote Workstations Not Supported
-
- The files needed to install and use remote
- workstations are not included in this release. The
- RIPL files will be available at a later date.
-
- Frame Type Default Is Different
-
- The default frame type for Ethernet ODI drivers (such
- as NE2000.SYS) has changed. In NetWare 3.x and
- NetWare 2.x, the default for Ethernet drivers was set
- to Ethernet_802.3. In NetWare 4.0, the drivers
- default to Ethernet_802.2.
-
- Routers on the network must also support the frame
- type or your workstation often might not get a
- connection. Some routers currently on your network
- might not support the new Ethernet_802.2 default.
-
- Your workstation might not be able to connect to a
- network expecting Ethernet_802.3 if you use the
- Ethernet_802.2 default.
-
- To eliminate a potential conflict, define both frame
- types (Ethernet_802.2 and Ethernet_802.3) on your
- network.
-
- For the workstation, define frame types in NET.CFG.
- Include a line similar to the following, replacing
- NE2000 with the name of your ODI driver:
-
- link driver ne2000
- frame ethernet_802.2
- frame ethernet_802.3
-
- The first frame defined is the only one used for the
- initial Get Nearest Server request. Therefore, if you
- have some servers that are using only one frame type,
- such as Ethernet_802.3, put that frame type first.
-
- That way your workstation can make a default
- connection to those servers.
-
- For more information about frame types, see Chapter
- 5, "Network Boards and Drivers," of NetWare
- Workstation for OS/2.
-
- Logging In From Global DOS Not Supported
-
- Don't log in from a global DOS session. Instead, log
- in from an OS/2 session and then switch to the DOS
- session.
-
- Except for this login difference, you can still set
- up drive mappings for global sessions as instructed
- in Chapter 3, "Network Access From Virtual DOS and
- MS Windows" of NetWare Workstation for OS/2.
-
- Login Utilities No Longer Shipped with the OS/2 Requester
-
- This version of the NetWare Requester for OS/2 does
- not include any NetWare utilities. Previous versions
- of the requester included a few utilities (Login.exe,
- map.exe, etc.) which were copied to the OS/2
- workstationÆs hard drive. This enabled OS/2 users to
- login to NetWare servers which did not have the OS/2
- utilities installed on them.
-
- While NetWare 3.11 included the OS/2 utility
- diskettes, it did not have them automatically
- installed to the SYS:LOGIN\OS2 and SYS:PUBLIC\OS2
- areas on the server. Later releases of NetWare
- automatically install the OS/2 utilities so all OS/2
- workstations on the network will have full access to
- them.
-
- The OS/2 workstations therefore do not need a copy of
- these utilities on the hard drive to gain access to
- the network. If you lose connection to the file
- server or attach to a file server without OS/2
- utilities NWTOOLS.EXE, in the Novell Icon on the OS/2
- desktop, will allow you to attach and map to servers
- without access to OS/2 utilities. Another option is
- to copy the basic utilities such as LOGIN.EXE, and
- MAP.EXE to your local disk.
-
-
- Editing Login Scripts for DOS Sessions
-
- If a user logs in from a private DOS session running
-
- NETX.EXE, a NetWare 3.11 user login script will
- execute if it exists.
-
- This login script is called LOGIN and is located in
- the SYS:MAIL\userID directory. You can edit it with
- a text editor or a bindery utility from previous
- versions of NetWare such as SYSCON.
-
- If the server is a new NetWare 4.0 server rather
- than
- an upgraded server, login scripts and the
- \MAIL\userID directory don't exist.
-
- Login scripts in NetWare 4.0 are properties of the
- user object. You can create the login script on a
- local drive and use the /S option when you log in.
-
- For example, create the LOGIN.DOS login script on
- the
- C:\ drive and type the following to log in:
-
- LOGIN /S C:\LOGIN.DOS
-
- Run NetWare 4.0 Utilities in DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE Sessions
-
- In a private DOS session booted from a real DOS
- kernel
- (i.e., a session with DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE set) running
- NetWare 4.0 DOS Requester, you may receive errors
- running some of the utilities.
-
- Solve the problem by being logged in from an OS/2
- session whenever you use a utility from the
- DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE session.
-
- You must be logged in to the same server from the
- OS/
- 2 session as you are logged in to from the
- DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE session.
-
- For example, suppose you logged in to server SALES
- from the DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE session. For some
- utilities to function, you would also need to log in
-
- to server SALES from an OS/2 session.
-
- As long as your OS/2 session is logged in, your
- utilities will function properly. This condition
- particularly applies to the PCONSOLE, NETUSER,
- FILER,
- NDIR, and NPRINT utilities.
-
- Request Retries Default Incorrect
-
- The Workstation for OS/2 manual and online help
- incorrectly document the default for the "NetWare
- Requester request retries" NET.CFG setting. The
- correct default is 10, not 20.
-
- If you are running slower ODI drivers (lower than 10
-
- Mbits/sec), then change the default to 20, this
- helps
- to minimize transmission errors.
-