NetWare Connections

Do IPX network numbers correspond to interface frame types?

For the server network interface, make sure that you have configured the correct frame type and associated it with the correct hexadecimal NetWare network number. To find out the correct rame type/network number combination, look at Novell server configurations or run ipxprobe after shutting down IPXd. If your network does not contain a Novell server, you can use any hexadecimal number unique for the frame type.

TotalNET IPX supports full routing, which means that you can configure it to use more than one network interface, and it supports multiple frame types on each interface. TAS treats a single physical network as a collection of distinct logical networks using distinct interface frame types and performs routing among the logical networks just as it does their physical networks, so each frame type on the system must associate with a different net number.

You can configure each interface for a number of frame types with corresponding network numbers. For instance, interface_1 might have frametype_x with netnumber_x and frametype_y with netnumber_y, and interface_2 might have frametype_x with netnumber_x and and frametype_z with netnumber_z. You must use a unique net number for the internal frame type in the NetWare realm. Never delete the internal frame type.

To check frame types and network numbers from the UNIX command line, use the command tniface -R -n tnipx.

Can you see the server with "slist"?

To view all of the NetWare servers currently active on the network, access Network Neighborhood or, in DOS, use the slist command. If the NetWare server you need does not appear on the slist list, advertisements from the server do not reach your client. You may have a disabled server or a problem with Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP) advertisements. To see if you enabled your server, click Status at a Glance.

If you suspect a problem with SAP advertisements, contact a Syntax Technical Support engineer at support@syntax.com for further assistance. Before contacting Syntax, see "Contacting Sun Technical Support".

Does the server process the client utilities?

Different versions of login programs used by NetWare vary greatly. For example, if you wish to use Novell 3.12 utilities to connect to a NetWare realm service, you must turn on client encryption for that service, since the 3.12 utilities only send encrypted passwords. You do not need to turn on password encryption for clients of versions later than 3.12, however, because they can send clear-text passwords.

Syntax provides login utilities for the NetWare realm in $TNHOME/NW/sys/login. They provide similar functionality to programs used by NetWare. To turn on client encryption, use the "tnservice" command.