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TotalNET Advanced Server 5.2 Release Notes

Chapter 1 About These Notes

Read Me Before Installation

During the installation of TotalNET Advanced Server (TAS), the installation program adds the local user and group totalnet to your system as the TAS administrative user and group, if it does not already exist.

TAS 5.2 cannot operate on the same system with earlier versions of TAS, TAS components, or TNclient. If your system contains any of these, upgrade as instructed in "Upgrading Overview". You can only make one-way conversions from earlier versions of TAS to TAS 5.2. Back up TAS before upgrading.

TAS has year-2000 compliancy. It conforms with Option One of the Y2000 Developer's Guide.

About These Notes

These release notes contain TAS upgrading and installation instructions. Immediately after completing installation, follow the instructions for initial configuration in TAS Administration Manual or TAS Reference Manual to configure TAS.

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You do not need to reconfigure TAS to upgrade from a previous version.

This document supplements the TAS on-line HTML manuals. The TAS manual set consists of the following publications:

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TAS-DCE Manual only applies to clients using the optional TAS-DCE module. It includes information for installing the TAS-DCE package.

Instructions for accessing the TAS manuals appear under "Connecting to TNAS and Accessing Documentation". You can also download documentation at http://www.syntax.com/support/guest/docs/tedoc.htm.

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. TotalAdmin constitutes one part 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--as HTML documents through your web browser.

File Name Mapping

The way TAS handles 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 atconvert utility allows you to convert from Helios or CAP 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 as well as inbound support to the PAP driver.

TNHOME

TheTAS installation program installs TAS in the default TotalNET home directory, TNHOME, whose path differs from platform to platform. Within TNHOME, TAS creates subdirectories containing the three TAS realms, the on-line documentation, and TotalNET Administration Suite (TNAS). The following table lists the location of the TNHOME directory by platform:

TNHOME by Platform 

AIX 

/var/totalnet

IRIX, HP, Solaris 

/var/opt/totalnet

The TAS installation program writes the TNHOME directory path to /etc/totalnet/TNHOME during installation. The following table lists important directories relative to TNHOME in the TAS environment:

Directory 

Path 

TotalNET home directory 

TNHOME (default directory)

LM-NT-OS/2 realm  

TNHOME/NB

NetWare realm 

TNHOME/NW

AppleTalk realm  

TNHOME/AT

TNAS 

TNHOME/tnas

TotalAdmin  

TNHOME/totaladmin

TAS on-line documentation  

TNHOME/usr/docs

License Key

Note -

You need a new license key to upgrade.

TAS ships with one user license. To purchase additional user licenses, contact your Sun sales representative. To do so, you need your system ID, which determines the activation key for licenses.

Installation Information

Installation Instructions

Complete the steps in "Upgrading Steps: TAS 4.1.1" if you have an earlier version of TAS on your system; otherwise, consult the installation section for your platform from the list below.

Read Chapter 7, General TAS Issues for information to keep in mind after installing TAS. For the most up-to-date information about issues with this release, see the Syntax Technical on-line documentation web page at the following URL: http://www.syntax.com/support/guest/docs/tedoc.htm.

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TAS no longer supports TAS-NB (HP 9.x and SunOS).