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TotalNET Advanced Server 5.2 Reference Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

This chapter covers the following topics:

TotalNET Advanced Server

TotalNET Advanced Server (TAS) provides a unified networking solution for multi-platform LAN and WAN environments. TAS enables LAN Manager, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 3.x, OS/2, NetWare, and AppleTalk clients to share file, print, and terminal services transparently across a UNIX server, regardless of their choice of client software and network protocol.

Because TAS software uses UNIX as the enterprise LAN server operating system, it can operate with other UNIX processes. This interoperability allows you--the administrator--to use UNIX's multi-user scalability for application, file, printer, ATLW, terminal, NVT, mail, communications, and database services.

TAS includes three realms:

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.

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 or 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 information for setting up, configuring, and administering TAS from the UNIX command line after you install TAS using the instructions in the TotalNET Advanced Server Release Notes, which came with your packaging. It assumes you have both an advanced understanding of network administration and network administration privileges in the system.

After reading the rest of this introduction, perform initial setup as described in Chapter 2, Initial Setup Steps. From there, you may administer TAS as using UNIX commands described in Chapters 3 and 4.

This section covers the following topics:

Notational Conventions

This table describes textual notations you will encounter:

courier

A command, path, or part of a path. 

italic

A variable. You must replace each occurrence of this text with a valid value for its variable. For the realm variable, use NB, NW, or AT. 

lower-case 

A command or file name that does not require upper-case. 

UPPER-CASE 

Characters you must supply in upper-case. 

[]

Brackets around an optional part of the command line. 

{}

Braces around two or more options, separated by pipes (|), from which you must choose. 

|

A pipe to separate choices enclosed in braces. 

()

Parentheses to group the options they enclose. 

...

An ellipsis to indicate that you may include as many specifications as you wish for the preceding option. 

The following example demonstrates the use of courier, courier italic, brackets, braces, pipes, and ellipses:

The following example illustrates the addition of the value of the browse-master attribute (kipper) to the file service atmoe:file in the AT realm:

tnservice -A -r AT -s atmoe:file  -a browse-master=kipper

Command Entry Format

Lists of command entries in alphabetical order appear in Chapter 3, TotalNET User Commands and Chapter 4, TotalNET Maintenance Commands. The command entries describe function, location, usage, examples, and attributes for every command. Each command entry has the command name as the title, followed by a description of its functionality and the following sections:

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.

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.

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. For more information on TNAS, refer to TAS Administration Manual.

TotalNET system manager

The daemon that performs general management of the TotalNET system. For more information, refer to TAS Administration Manual.

transports

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.

zone

In the AppleTalk environment, a zone consists of a logical grouping of clients. It simplifies browsing 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 2, Initial Setup Steps before you can perform any tasks in Part II: Administration.

Part I: Initial Setup

Part II: Administration

Related Books

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

TAS Administration Manual -- On-line instructions for performing administrative configuration of TAS from the TNAS interface.

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