Chapter 1 Introduction

This chapter covers the following topics:

• "What's New in This Release"

• "About This Manual"

• "Related Books"

What's New in This Release

TotalNET Administration Suite

TotalNET Administration Suite (TNAS) allows you to configure the TotalNET network through HTML menus and dialogue boxes, just as TotalAdmin did for TotalNET Advanced Server (TAS) in previous releases of TAS. TotalAdmin constitutes one sphere of TNAS.

New TotalAdmin

The presentation and arrangement of TotalAdmin menu items reflect the new, intuitive TNAS framework.

HTML Documentation

You can now access TAS on-line documentation-- TAS Administration Manual, TAS Reference Manual, and, if applicable, TAS-DCE Manual--in HTML.

File Name Mapping

The way TAS handles filename case now defaults to case-preservation, in which TAS maps case to UNIX exactly as given by the client, instead of to lower-case.

Improved Utility Performance

The TotalNET remote utilities, such as the ru- and nc- utilities, now support long file names, the tnpasswd utility performs more efficiently, the "CAP to MAC" utility works with TAS 5.0 file formats, the atconvert utility allows you to convert from Helios to TAS, and NetWare client utilities function more intuitively.

Enhanced Tracing

You can now turn tracing on and off from all three realms and for all file services, and you can do so more easily than in previous releases.

AppleTalk Printer Access from All Realms

This feature allows you to print to AppleTalk printers through TAS. TAS extends outbound and inbound support to the PAP driver.

About This Manual

This manual provides step-by-step information for setting up, configuring, and administering TAS from the TotalAdmin sphere after you install TAS using the instructions in TotalNET Advanced Server Release Notes, which came with your packaging. It assumes you have both a general understanding of network administration and network administration privileges in the system.

After reading "Terminology" below, read Chapter 2, TAS, TNAS, and TotalAdmin, then perform initial setup as described in Chapter 3, Initial Setup Steps. From there, you may administer TAS as described in Chapters 4-6.

This section covers the following topics:

• "Notational Conventions"

• "Terminology"

• "Overview of Chapters"

Notational Conventions

This table describes textual notations you will encounter:

Terminology

$TNHOME

The TotalNET home directory where TAS files and programs reside, located at /var/opt/totalnet.

attach points

Aliases for directory paths in a volume. Users see attach points as volumes and cannot move up directory trees past them.

button

A control that executes an action or changes an attribute or feature.

control frame

The window in the upper left of the TNAS screen. It contains TNAS-specific options.

icon

A graphical representation of an object or process. This manual describes the function of each clickable icon.

menu frame

The window in the lower left of the TNAS screen. It displays the hierarchy of options for the sphere.

realms

Domains in the TAS environment. TAS has the following three realms, based on the three types of clients and transport protocols:

LM-NT-OS/2 realm -- The realm for LAN Manager, Windows NT, Windows 95, and IBM OS/2 clients running NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP or NetBIOS-over-NetBEUI transports.

NetWare realm -- The realm for NetWare clients running the IPX/SPX transport.

AppleTalk realm -- The realm for Macintosh clients running the AppleTalk transport.

services

File, print, and terminal services in the TotalNET environment.

server selector

A mechanism for displaying all TAS systems in your enterprise. From it, you can select the system to administer.

sphere

A collection of menus that allows you to perform a logical set of system administration tasks. You can add or delete these "plug-in" or "snap-in" spheres on the host server.

sphere frame

The window in the upper right of the TNAS screen. It displays all the available plug-in spheres for the server.

TNAS

TotalNET Administration Suite, a task-oriented graphic administration and configuration interface for TotalNET product administration, licensing, and system administration. TNAS includes the TotalAdmin sphere for administering TAS.

TNAS session

A way for TNAS to identify users and manage their activities separately. A session starts when a user logs in and ends when it expires or the user logs out.

TotalNET system manager

The daemon that performs general management of the TotalNET system.

TotalAdmin

The TAS administration sphere of TNAS, also called the TotalAdmin sphere. It comes bundled with TAS.

transport

Low-level networking protocol suites defined at the system level and referenced from all realms. TAS provides services for each realm over the appropriate transport protocols: NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP, NetBIOS-over-NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, and AppleTalk.

volumes

Short names for UNIX directory paths made known to TAS and its clients. File services export volumes to clients. You must define a volume and its corresponding directory path to make it accessible to network clients. Include a reference to a volume for all the file services you wish to enable for client access.

work frame

The window in the lower right of the TNAS screen. Input forms appear here.

zone

In the AppleTalk environment, a logical grouping of clients. It simplifies scanning the network for resources, such as servers and printers, in similar domains. In a DNS (Domain Name System) database, a zone consists of a subdirectory of the DNS database. It serves as a DNS name server. This may contain a single domain or several sub-domains. You can set up one or more name servers for each zone.

zone list

All of the zones associated with a particular network.

Overview of Chapters

You must complete Chapter 3, Initial Setup Steps before you can perform any tasks in Part II: Administration.

Part I: Initial Setup

Chapter 1, Introduction -- Descriptions of new features; the usage, terminology, and chapters of this manual; and related books.

Chapter 2, TAS, TNAS, and TotalAdmin -- Descriptions of TAS, TNAS terminology, TNAS and TotalAdmin icons and buttons, and the TotalAdmin menu frame for TAS administration, as well as instructions for configuring the TotalNET master server, accessing TNAS and TotalAdmin, changing the TNAS port number, stopping and restarting TNAS, viewing current TNAS sessions, setting TNAS time-outtime-out and expiration times, and licensing.

Chapter 3, Initial Setup Steps -- Step-by-step instructions for performing initial configuration of TAS from TotalAdmin.

Part II: Administration

Chapter 4, General Administrative Tasks -- Instructions for controlling the server system, administering username maps, administering secure authentication, administering users, administering volumes, administering printers, running UNIX commands, and updating UNIX file attributes.

Chapter 5, Configuring Services -- Instructions for configuring services for the LM-NT-OS/2, NetWare, and AppleTalk realms.

Chapter 6, Configuring Transports -- Instructions for administering transport protocols for each realm.

Chapter 7, Troubleshooting -- Instructions for general troubleshooting, error and activity logging, identifying error messages and conditions and their solutions, contacting Syntax Technical Support, and generating Customer Service Request (CSR) report system information.

Related Books

TotalNET Advanced Server Release Notes -- Instructions for installing TAS, included with your packaging. You must complete the appropriate steps in the TotalNET Advanced Server Release Notes before using this administration guide or TAS Reference Manual.

TAS Quick Reference -- A summary of UNIX commands, included with your packaging.

TAS Reference Manual -- On-line instructions for performing administrative configuration of TAS from the UNIX command line. Use TAS Reference Manual instead of this manual to configure TAS from UNIX.