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- DOCUMENT:Q111968 04-MAR-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Windows NT Stand-Alone Server and OS/2 Client Limitations
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SUMMARY
- =======
-
- You can connect to a stand-alone Windows NT computer acting as a server
- when you configure a LAN Manager for OS/2 client on an OS/2 1.x or an IBM
- OS/2 2.x computer, but you will experience some functional limitations.
-
- When you connect the OS/2 client to a Windows NT Advanced Server computer
- or a LAN Manager server computer, you do not experience these limitations.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
- ================
-
- The following are some of the functional limitations you may experience
- when you connect to a stand-alone Windows NT computer from a LAN Manager
- OS/2 client.
-
- Domain Not Available
- --------------------
-
- A stand-alone Windows NT computer can only be configured for a workgroup.
- To have a domain on the computer, you must have a connection to a Windows
- NT Advanced Server computer. This creates a problem when you try to
- configure the OS/2 client software. The OS/2 client setup interface only
- allows you to specify a domain. You can workaround this limitation by
- specifying the workgroup name with which you configured the Windows NT
- computer.
-
- Cannot View Clients from Windows NT
- -----------------------------------
-
- You cannot view or browse the LAN Manager clients from the Windows NT
- computer. This is true even if you have selected the "Make Browser
- Broadcasts to LAN Manager 2.x Clients" option in the Server Configuration
- dialog box of the Network applet of Control Panel.
-
- View Menu Options Unavailable
- -----------------------------
-
- Without the Enable LAN Manager Broadcasts option for the Server software
- selected in the Network Settings dialog box, most of the options in the
- View menu of the Net Admin screen for the client software are unavailable,
- including the following:
-
- Available Resources
- Printer Queues
- Com-Device Queues
- Shared Resources
- Users on Server
-
- Cannot Always View Server
- -------------------------
-
- Without the "Make Browser Broadcasts to LAN Manager 2.x Clients" option
- selected on the Windows NT computer, you will not be able to Net View the
- server computer from the client computer, and the server computer will not
- appear as an available resource in the main window of the Net Admin utility
- on the client computer.
-
- Error Messages from View Menu
- -----------------------------
-
- Most of the options on the client's Net Admin View menu become available if
- you enable LAN Manager broadcasts on the Windows NT computer and set the
- focus on the Windows NT computer in the Net Admin dialog box. However,
- various error messages appear if you try to select any of the options in
- the View menu. These error messages all relate to the Windows NT computer
- not providing the full range of server services that a Windows NT Advanced
- Server or a LAN Manager server computer would provide. The following are
- the affected Net Admin View menu options and the associated error messages
- that are displayed when you attempt to select the options:
-
- Option Error Message
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-
- Printer Queues... "NET 2152 - The Printer destination
- cannot be found."
-
- Users on a Server... "SYS0050: The Network request is
- not supported."
-
- Users on a Server... "Net2142: The requested API isn't
- supported on the remote server."
-
- Select a domain to View... "The domain controller for <domain
- name> could not be found."
-
- For more information about the LAN Manager Client Software for OS/2
- Clients, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
-
- LAN and Manager and Browser and broadcasts
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: netsrv
-
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- Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1994.