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Subject: Re: samba+TCP/IP client for DOS or mars-nwe+clients netware?
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
Martin C <forolinux AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> > It is now 8 months since the switch and they have
> > never looked back.
> > Only caveat is that IPX interface must be created
> > with IPXtools and not
> > repeat not with mars-nwe itself. It seems that if
> > you use IPXtools the bug
> > which makes DOSemu clients lose idle connections
> > after about 10 min.
> > vanishes
> > without trace.
>  
> I was trying with only two computers: mine as the
> server and a client. Now I tried to install mars-nwe
> in a computer in a LAN with 2 real Novell servers and
> if I follow your advice not letting mars-nwe to
> configure the interface, slist won't show the three
> servers, but only mars-nwe one. If I don't comment the
> line 
>        4   0x22    eth1    802.2  1
> to configure the interface I see the three servers in
> slist after getting up the new server.
> By the way, I couldn't connect from a DOS client with
> the last method... 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Mars-nwe's nwserv.config says on section 4:

" ! ! NOTE ! !
Automatic detection in this sections means that ipx-interfaces which
are created by other instances than the server/router
e.g. pppd, ipppd or ipx-interface, will be detected and inserted/removed
in internal device/routing table at runtime

Automatic kernel creation of interfaces can be switched on in section 5"

You absolutely must configure section 4 of nwserv.conf for mars-nwe to
work correctly.
I was referring not to the configuration (chapter 4) but to the creation
(chapter 5) of the ipx-interface.
To avoid a bug that makes connections from DOSemu clients being lost after
aprox. 10 min. of idle time, you must set section 5 as 0x1 and create the
ipx interface with ipx tools (ipx-interface) instead.

As for pure DOS client connections, we never had any problem with them;
they always worked superbly.
I imagine there is something wrong either with the frame type or the net
number. You must consider section 4 with the utmost care and all should go
well.

Hth.

-- 
Enrique Baraibar