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- Server Control Procedures
-
- The server control procedures distributed with this version of
- NetWare RPC are:
-
- main_sc.c: Single-Binding server control procedure
- main_mc.c: Multiple-Client server control procedure
-
- Configuration Issues
-
- The NetWare workstation IPX driver, IPX.COM, must be loaded
- in order to execute the client or server portions of a distributed
- application at a DOS workstation. Normally, when NetWare software
- is installed, the loading of this driver is included in the
- autoexec.bat file. If you cannot locate IPX.COM on your workstation,
- discuss installation of the NetWare software with your network
- administrator.
-
- The IPX driver will accept a configuration file named shell.cfg, if it
- appears in the root directory of your boot drive. The configuration
- file allows you to change default limits on the number of sockets
- and connections that the driver can support, which are initially set
- at 20 and 100 respectively. When setting these values consider the
- following:
-
- * Many NetWare functions require sockets and connections to be
- allocated for their use. In general, those available for use
- by your distributed application will be somewhat less than
- the maximum allocated.
-
- * Each active binding of a client or server program requires
- exclusive use of both an IPX socket and an SPX connection.
- A multi-client server intended to handle active process bindings
- with 40 clients should configure for at least 50 sockets and
- connections.
-
- The format of the entries in the configuration file shell.cfg is as
- follows:
-
- IPX SOCKETS=NNN
- SPX CONNECTIONS=NNN
-
- where NNN may take on positive decimal values up to 150.
-
- Most distributed programs written with NetWare RPC use the
- name to address mapping facility provided by the NetWare RPC, to allow
- client programs to locate server programs. The server program
- registers its name with the network, and the client program
- identifies its remote server using a name. When this facility
- is used, the network must include at least one NetWare Fileserver
- to support use of the Fileserver Bindery by the client and
- server programs.
-