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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
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  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: Re: IBM LAN Server over Ethernet --- please help!
  5. Message-ID: <1685014E6.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. References:  <1992Aug26.161332.29967@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:29:06 GMT
  10. Lines: 65
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Aug26.161332.29967@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>                                                                                              
  13. dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math) writes:                                                                                        
  14.                                                                                                                                                       
  15. >I'd greatly appreciate help with this:                                                                                                               
  16. >                                                                                                                                                     
  17. >I'm trying to put up Lan Server basic 2.0 on a little Ethernet using SMC                                                                             
  18. >(former Western Digital) cards. The diagnostics program that came with                                                                               
  19. >the card is able to send and receive packets among the machines, so the                                                                              
  20. >cabling is probably OK.                                                                                                                              
  21. >                                                                                                                                                     
  22. >The MAC section of the protocol.ini file on the server only has entries                                                                              
  23. >for IRQ, ram window, and I/O port --- the rest is default. 'NET START                                                                                
  24. >SERVER' works with no error messages and I can log in locally. (There's                                                                              
  25. >no local loop and the server doesn't start if, e.g., the Ethernet cable                                                                              
  26. >is disconnected). 'NET ERROR' is empty.                                                                                                              
  27. >                                                                                                                                                     
  28. >There are no OS/2 workstations (for now, will be later).                                                                                             
  29. >                                                                                                                                                     
  30. >The MAC section of the protocol.ini file on the DOS workstations (level                                                                              
  31. >60000) only has entries for IRQ, ram window, and I/O port --- the rest                                                                               
  32. >is default. I also tried setting receive buffer to 256 and 1024 and                                                                                  
  33. >various values for queues et al with no effect. The config.sys has the 3                                                                             
  34. >DXM files; the E0 file has a 40K workspace (probably an overkill) and                                                                                
  35. >the T0 file has the default sessions/stations/names and O=N as the                                                                                   
  36. >documentation says; I also tried specifying transmit buffer to 1.4K as                                                                               
  37. >the documentation says and 1 or 2 buffers with no effect.                                                                                            
  38. >                                                                                                                                                     
  39. >What do I mean by 'no effect'? Netbind and 'net start' run with no error                                                                             
  40. >messages (I tried both RDR and RCV in DOSLAN.INI). However, 'net logon                                                                               
  41. >user pw' waits for a very long time and says 'Unable to contact the                                                                                  
  42. >domain controller'. Argh! :)                                                                                                                         
  43. >                                                                                                                                                     
  44. >I've been successfully running LAN Server with Token Ring on another set                                                                             
  45. >of PCs, have written fairly complex services and utils, am familiar and                                                                              
  46. >very happy with it, and can try to answer questions about that. I'm                                                                                  
  47. >confident that that part (IBMLAN.INI / DOSLAN.INI) is fine. My problem                                                                               
  48. >seems to be with Ethernet, which I've installed for the first time in my                                                                             
  49. >life. There's plenty of Ethernet here at GC under Novell and our kind                                                                                
  50. >systems people know nothing about LAN Server.                                                                                                        
  51. >                                                                                                                                                     
  52. >I have all LAN Server documentation, and access to Microsoft and 3COM                                                                                
  53. >documentation from 'previous lives'. No help there, except a few                                                                                     
  54. >Etherner notes that I've already tried.                                                                                                              
  55. >                                                                                                                                                     
  56. >I would *greatly appreciate* if some friendly soul _succeffully_ running                                                                             
  57. >the configuration I'm trying to set up (LAN server, DOS LAN requesters,                                                                              
  58. >Ethernet (preferably SMC/WD)) could kindly e-mail me their                                                                                           
  59. >configuration: (protocol.ini, config.sys, lanman.ini, doslan.ini) so I                                                                               
  60. >could see what I might be missing there; or otherwise suggest what could                                                                             
  61. >be going wrong or how I could gather more diagnostic information.                                                                                    
  62. >                                                                                                                                                     
  63. >Many thanks in advance for any responses!                                                                                                            
  64. >                                                                                                                                                     
  65. >Dimitri                                                                                                                                              
  66. >Dimitri Vulis                                                                                                                                        
  67. >CUNY GC Math                                                                                                                                         
  68. >DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET DLV@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU                                                                                                         
  69. >                                                                                                                                                     
  70. >Disclaimer: my Usenet postings don't necessarily represent anyone's views,                                                                           
  71. >especially my own and/or CUNY's.                                                                                                                     
  72. >                                                                                                                                                     
  73. Just a comment to make sure and double check the default domain name in DOSLAN.                                                                       
  74. INI and make sure the same as in IBMLAN.INI on the server.                                                                                            
  75. Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
  76. Iowa State University                                                                                                                                 
  77.