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- NetWare DOS/Windows Workstation README file
- For NetWare DOS client v3.01
- May 1990
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. The instructions for creating PIF files in the
- NetWare DOS/Windows Workstation Update booklet are
- for the 386 Enhanced Mode. If you are using other
- modes, check your Windows documentation for instructions
- on how to create a PIF file.
-
-
- 2. BINDFIX--WARNING: Do not run the BINDFIX utility
- included in this kit on a NetWare 386 server.
-
-
- 3. Full IPX/SPX support was not available in Windows v3.0
- at the time of this release. Applications using IPX/SPX may
- cause network errors if run under Windows v3.0.
-
-
- 4. For product information, call 1-800-LANKIND.
- For customer service, call 1-800-LANSWER. (This service is
- provided for a fee.)
-
-
- 5. The INSTALL Utility for NetWare and Windows 3.0
-
- You may experience problems if you are running Windows 3.0
- in 386 Enhanced Mode with Novell NetWare. The problem
- only occurs with some network adapters configured to use
- IRQ 2 or IRQ 9. The INSTALL utility provided with this kit will
- prevent these problems by installing a new file in your
- Windows directory.
-
- We recommend that you run this installation procedure if
- you are using Windows and NetWare on a 80386-based
- computer, whether or not your current configuration
- displays the problem. This will ensure that your copy of
- Windows will function properly if your configuration is
- later changed.
-
- Performing this procedure will have no adverse affects on
- your system, whether or not it is required.
-
- The INSTALL utility may be run against your local Windows
- directory or against your shared Windows directory.
-
- If you are running it against your local Windows directory
- (usually C:\Windows), INSTALL will install a new file for use by
- Windows in 386 enhanced mode. INSTALL will copy the file VPICDA.386
- to your Windows directory and modify your SYSTEM.INI file to tell
- Windows about the new file.
-
- If you are running INSTALL against your shared Windows
- directory, INSTALL will install VPICDA.386 in your shared
- Windows directory. Your SYSTEM.SRC file will be modified so
- that individual copies of Windows set up from this directory will
- receive SYSTEM.INI files that load this new file.
-
- Perform the following steps to run the installation procedure
-
- a. Change directories to the location of
- INSTALL.EXE. (INSTALL.EXE AND
- VPICDA.386 are located on the UTILITIES-2
- diskette.)
-
- b. Type INSTALL if you are running INSTALL
- against your Windows directory (already installed on
- your workstation),
-
- OR
-
- Type INSTALL /n if you are running INSTALL
- against your shared Windows directory.
-
- At this point, the installation procedure notifies you that the
- procedure completed successfully.
-
-
- 6. The following additional shell configuration option
- is available for IPX:
-
- CONFIG OPTION=number
-
- Allows you to override the configuration options
- chosen during the SHGEN or DCONFIG program.
- This parameter does not permanently change the
- IPX file. It only changes the configurations within
- the workstation RAM. Use it as a temporary method
- for changing the configurations. If the configuration
- option must be changed permanently, the IPX file
- should be reconfigured through the SHGEN or
- DCONFIG program.
-
- Default: option set during SHGEN or DCONFIG
-
- 7. The following additional shell configuration options
- are available for NetBIOS:
-
- COMMANDS=number
-
- Replace number with the number of commands that
- NetBIOS uses. The minimum is 4 commands;
- the maximum is 128 commands.
-
- Default: COMMANDS=12
-
- Note: NetBIOS currently allocates one send buffer for
- every command buffer allocated. The number of
- commands and send buffers will equal the
- maximum of these two parameters.
- RETRY COUNT=number
-
- Allows you to specify the number of
- times NetBIOS will transmit a request to establish
- a connection before it times out. No minimum and no
- maximum.
-
- Default: RETRY COUNT=20
-
- INTERNET=[ON | OFF]
-
- Affects how NetBIOS names are resolved
- to NetWare addresses. If the internet option is
- specified as ON, name resolution broadcasts are
- forwarded through NetWare bridges through the
- internetwork. If the internet option is specified as
- OFF, the broadcast will only be sent to stations on
- the local network, and NetBIOS will ignore inbound
- NetBIOS packets from outside the local network.
-
- Default: INTERNET=ON
-
- BROADCAST COUNT=number
-
- NetBIOS broadcasts packets to every station on the
- internetwork while it attempts to register or find a
- NetBIOS name. It broadcasts the request the
- number of times recommended by the BROADCAST
- COUNT. (Older versions of NetBIOS used RETRY
- COUNT to resolve names.
-
- If the internet option is ON, the default is 4. If the
- internet option is OFF, the default is 2.
-
- BROADCAST DELAY=number
-
- Allows you to configure the delay
- between each packet that NetBIOS sends out while
- attempting to register or find a NetBIOS name.
-
- NetBIOS waits the amount of time specified by
- BROADCAST DELAY before each retry.
- The delay is specified in milliseconds.
-
- If the internet option is ON, the default broadcast
- delay is 2,000 milliseconds. If the internet option is
- OFF, the default broadcast delay is 1,000
- milliseconds. The minimum broadcast retry delay is
- 100 milliseconds; the maximum broadcast retry delay
- is 65,535 milliseconds.
-
- Note: NetBIOS attempts to find a name whenever a session
- is established or a datagram is sent. Names used
- by datagrams are cached where possible, but any
- datagram may require name resolution over the
- internetwork. This can take BROADCAST COUNT
- and BROADCAST DELAY time to complete.
-