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- From: pstevens@Metaphor.COM (Paul Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: LAPS and TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <2530@cronos.metaphor.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:23:53 GMT
- Sender: news@cronos.metaphor.com
- Reply-To: pstevens@Metaphor.COM (Paul Stevens)
- Organization: m4
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- We have a large number of OS/2 machines that all must be configured
- to run TCP/IP (we keep source code on a Sun file server). Up until
- now everyone either manually installed and updated their CONFIG.SYS
- files or used a special program someone wrote to do this.
-
- Now, there appears to be a version of LAPS that can install onto any
- drive (i.e. not just C:) and we would like to start using it to do
- these installs. However, we can not find a way to get LAPS to use
- the .NIF file provided with TCP/IP. We also have the same problem
- with some of the 3-Com boards and drivers; how to get LAPS to use
- their .NIF files?
-
- Furthermore, LAPS seems very unforgiving about running it more than
- once. Even after restoring the old CONFIG.SYS and removing every
- file we could find related to the network protocols and drivers that
- LAPS knows about, we get an error from LAPS on its second invocation
- that there are "locked files". Of course, it does not tell us which
- files these are!
-
- One of the guys here tried putting these .NIF's into the ZIP'ed
- file on the LAPS diskette, hoping that we could get it to install
- TCP and these other MAC drivers, but until we find the "locked files"
- or reformat the disk we can't try this out.
-
- This whole scheme (LAPS as related to installing various protocols
- and drivers) seems half-baked. There must be some missing pieces.
-
- Anybody (esp. from IBM) know the real scoop?
-
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- Paul Stevens {apple|decwrl}!metaphor!pstevens
- Metaphor Computer Systems pstevens@metaphor.com
- Mountain View, CA
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