Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 17:08:16 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: Win98+PNW help please To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------