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- Readme file
- Netware Requester for OS/2 v1.3
- For workstations running OS/2
- March 1991
- -------------------------------
-
- NOTE: You may also want to read the utilities installation Readme file found
- on the OS2UTIL-1 diskette.
-
- 1. Corrections and additions to the manual
-
- COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER DRIVERS (see pages 18 and 28).
-
- - The IBM Token-Ring adapter for use with Communications Manager is
- called CMGRLAN.SYS and not TOKENEE.SYS. The CMGRLAN.SYS driver
- now works with IBM Ethernet or IBM PC networks as well as Token-Ring
- networks uusing the Communications Manager.
-
- - You can now specify either PCN2.SYS or PCN2L.SYS as the driver for
- the IBM PC Network Adapter II and II/A. PCN2.SYS uses the older
- Novell frame format and PCN2L.SYS uses the newer IBM frame format.
- Use PCN2L.SYS for communicating across IBM PCN2 bridges. The
- PCN2.SYS and PCN2L.SYS drivers are not compatible with each other.
-
- - The Novell RX-Net and RX-Net/2 drivers are now specified using
- TRXNET.SYS and TRXNET2.SYS instead of RXNET.SYS and RXNET2.SYS.
-
- LINK SUPPORT (see pages 25 and 26). If your fast-CPU workstation
- experiences performance problems running with the TRXNET.SYS driver,
- you may need to reconfigure the number and size of the buffers allowed
- in the link support layer. Set the following values:
-
- Number of buffers=15
- Buffer size=4202 bytes
-
- NAMED PIPES (see page 15). You can use the NET.CFG file to change
- the default configuration for the Named Pipes protocol. You can
- reconfigure any or all of the following features of Named Pipes
- (to use the default value for a feature, simply leave the line for that
- feature out of the NET.CFG file).
-
- Client sessions Maximum number of connections any one
- workstation can establish with all Named
- Pipes servers. Must be a whole number
- between 3 and 128 (default=16).
-
- Server sessions Maximum number of connections a Named Pipes
- server will support with all Named Pipes
- clients. Must be a whole number between
- 2 and 255 (default=32).
-
- Service threads Maximum number of threads the Named Pipes
- server will allocate to service requests
- from all clients. If the server
- applications use blocking pipes, increase
- this value. If the server uses non-blocking
- pipes, use the default value for better
- performance. Must be a whole number between
- 1 and 32 (default=3).
-
- The Named Pipes entry in NET.CFG should have the following syntax:
-
- named pipes
- client sessions #
- server sessions #
- service threads #
-
- Replace the pound sign (#) with a valid number, as instructed above.
- Indent the lines under "named pipes," using either spaces or tabs.
-
- NAMED PIPES FOR DOS (see pages 53-54).
-
- - Your OS/2 workstation may require up to a minute after you
- run the Named Pipes extender for DOS before it is ready
- to run a Named Pipes application. This can be especially
- significant in batch files, where Named Pipes applications
- may fail because they are executed immediately (with no pause)
- after running the extender.
-
- - Step 3 on page 54 of the manual instructs you to put a line
- calling DOSNP.EXE into your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You must add
- this DOSNP.EXE line after the line which loads IPX.COM and
- before the line which loads the DOS shell (usually called
- NETx.COM); otherwise, there may be a conflict between
- DOSNP.EXE and the DOS shell.
-
- REMOTE INITIAL PROGRAM LOAD (RIPL).
-
- - You can not use the RIPL capability on PC Network workstations.
- RIPL can be used on Token-Ring and Ethernet workstations that
- have the necessary hardware installed (see page 8).
-
- - The remote boot image file names contain the letters RPL rather
- than the letters OS2. For example, the command in Step 7 on page 9
- should copy *RPL.SYS rather than *OS2.SYS. The TOKENOS2.SYS boot
- file shown in Step 3 on page 11 should be typed as TOKENRPL.SYS
- (see pages 9-11).
-
-
- 2. Known restrictions
-
- LOGIN SCRIPTS. If you use an INCLUDE statement in your login script,
- you must specify a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) pathname for the
- file to be included. For example, if the file to be included is called
- INCLUDE.TXT and is located on file server FS1, volume SYS, directory
- PUBLIC, the include statement should read as follows:
-
- INCLUDE \\FS1\SYS\PUBLIC\INCLUDE.TXT
-
- MAILSLOTS. Mailslots will not be supported in this release of
- the Requester.
-
- DISKLESS WORKSTATIONS. When you log in to a network from a workstation,
- the workstation will attach to the first network file server that
- responds. Therefore, each time a workstation attaches to the network
- it could attach to a different server.
-
- This variable attachment may cause problems for diskless OS/2
- workstations; these workstations need to be run from remote boot
- software on the file server to which they're attaching. To ensure
- reliability, you should install the remote boot software on each server
- that is located on the diskless workstation's local network (see
- page 8 of the manual for instructions). NOTE: Using the Preferred
- Server option will not solve this problem.
-
- UTILITIES.
-
- - The RENDIR utility will not be shipped with this release of the
- Requester.
-
- - When using NDIR to send directory output to a printer, you should
- specify the Continuous (/C) option if the output is longer than
- one screen. If you do not specify the Continuous option, you will
- be prompted to "Strike any key for next page. . ." after each screen
- of the output. Sending directory output to a file does not require
- use of the Continuous option.
-
-
- 3. Troubleshooting
-
- - Occasionally, if you have an older version of OS/2, some files
- (such as NETAPI.DLL) may not copy during installation. If this
- happens, you may need to boot up in DOS and copy the file or
- files manually. If your workstation will only boot in OS/2,
- then delete the LIBPATH references to the Requester in the
- CONFIG.SYS file, reboot the machine, and install the Requester
- again.
-
- - You may want to copy the ATTACH, LOGIN, MAP, and SLIST utilities
- to your hard disk in case you attach to a server that does not
- have OS/2 utilities. If you want to use only one server,
- install the OS/2 utilities on that server and set up the
- Preferred Server option on your workstation (see page 32).
-
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