From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: IBH, RWTH-Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:21:54 GMT+0100 Subject: Re: Personal Netware protocols Reply-to: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Message-ID: On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > Question: does this mean that if I set up a PNW server, a DOS ODI > client could access it alongside a NetWare 3.12 server without > any other drivers et cetera? Not exactly... You can connect to PNW, NetWare 3.xx, and NetWare 4.xx (by heart, I'm not sure about NetWare 2.xx) with the same suite of ODI/VLM drivers. But you need to give several special options in NET.CFG, which, of course, load different VLM modules: PNW needs PNW.VLM, and NetWare 3.xx for example needs BIND. Full documentation of these options can be found in DOSBOOK. Also, to connect to older NetWare 3.xx in a heterogene environment, you have to change the new default frame from 802.2 to 802.3. > This seemingly would imply that > Windows 95 should be able to access a PNW server with the > Netware32 client, contradicting the words of wisdom from the > Novell site. Anybody actually tried it yet? Yes, but not with Windows95. I've tried to use the DOS/Windows 3.1 release of Client32 with PNW 1.0, and unfortunately it failed. The most obvious problem on a client that should be logged in to a PNW server is, that there appears to be no LOGIN command. PNW's NET.EXE refuses to run on such a machine, because PNW.VLM is not loaded. And to load PNW.VLM, you would have to start VLM.EXE which does not run on the ODI32 drivers. What we'd need was a PNW.NLM version, as used by the new NIOS.EXE... Bye, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul ! My eMail address has changed. For some time ! Ubierstrasse 28 ! mails to former ! D-50321 BRUEHL ! will be forwarded to the new address. ! eMail: WWW : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------