Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 1999 17:08:16 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Win98+PNW help please
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
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On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 <Bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com> wrote:

> How do I get a win98 machine to connect to DR-DOS with Personal Netware
> runing? [...]
>
> I have tried installing the netware client in win98 but it askes for a
> Netware windows driver disk that was to be supplied by my computer
> manufacturer, [...]

I am assuming that the DR-DOS machine with Personal NetWare should 
become the "dedicated" networking server. For the other machines to
connect to that machine, you need to install Caldera's/Novell's 
ODI/VLM drivers (or equivalents, but you'll always need VLMs, the
older NETX won't do) in the DOS foundation of Windows 9x. Just load 
them in AUTOEXEC.BAT for example. Make sure, that the NET.CFG 
contains the proper protocol directives for PNW, not (only) BIND.
This should work, but it is an unsupported configuration by Novell.
(See NWDOSTIP.TXT/MPDOSTIP.ZIP on my web site for some troubleshooting 
and finetuning.) 

I guess it's most easy to install DR-DOS onto the Windows 9x machines 
too, and while booted into DR-DOS, setup the PNW networking stuff as a 
NetWare Client, then insert the necessary call to STARTNET.BAT into
Windows 9x's AUTOEXEC.BAT. For AUTOEXEC.BAT to be executed, you also
need to insert a SHELL directive in the Windows CONFIG.SYS, so that
it will load the COMMAND shell.

Unfortunately Novell's Client32 (currently) does not support Personal 
NetWare protocols.

It should also be possible to load the PNW server on the Windows 9x
machines, but this too is an unsupported configuration and I have not
tested it (however, it works at least with Windows 3.xx).

The other way around:

For the separate DR-DOS machine to connect to Windows 9x SMB 
server machines, you'd need to load a SMB DOS client on the DR-DOS
machine. As far as I know, such stacks are available from some
vendors (maybe even from Caldera), but I have not tested them. 

Novell has a bunch of technical papers available on their web site,
describing how to set up the VLM client with Windows 9x.

Hope it helps,

 Matthias
 
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