Subj : Ezycom & OS/2
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Sun May 11 2003 11:06 am

Hello Leonard!

10 May 03 02:24, Leonard Erickson wrote to Mike Tripp:


 MT>> Have you tried reconfiguring the protocols with MPTS adding
 MT>> Netware first?  I seem to recall having some issues with
 MT>> coexistence if the TCP/IP was added/configured before the Netware
 MT>> myself.

 LE> I've got Netware working (been working for years).

I am referring to configuring the OS/2 Netware client...not the Novell server.

 LE> But my local OS/2 gurus don't know anything about Netware, and
 LE> none of the attempts by them or buy me get T CP/IP working.

 LE> One got TCP/IP working by redoing the config.sys, but with that
 LE> config.sys, Netware won't work.

Trying to get there by hacking CONFIG.SYS is definitely "the hard way", 
particularly for a multiprotocol setup.  You can have all the correct 
statements but in the wrong sequence (including out-of-sequence with other 
non-networking-related lines) and still not get there from here.  You may end 
up needing to know the differences between ODI vs NDIS and shims between, 
Netware-specific PROTOCOL.INI statements, edit NIC-specific .NIFs, etc.  If 
your gurus don't have Netware experience, they will probably not be guru enough 
for this particular approach to this particular exercise.

Try running MPTS(.exe) instead. MPTS stands for "MultiProtocol Transport 
Services" and is intended to facilitate exactly what you're trying to do.  It 
is the closest equivalent that OS/2 has to the GUI dialogue you'd find in the 
the "Networking" control panel in MS, ie: Pick a NIC from this list; Pick a 
protocol from that list; Connect a selected protocol to a selected NIC.  It 
will then make and save all the appropriate changes to the appropriate files 
(including CONFIG.SYS) for you, hiding much of the complexity of the issues 
above.

While this route is a lot simpler, it is not without quirks of its own 
depending on the exact NIC & protocols involved.  The suggestion that I was 
trying to make was: when selecting protocols and attaching them to the NIC (in 
the MPTS configuration tool)...select the Netware protocol (they don't label it 
"IPX/SPX", but "IBM Netware Requester" or some such) prior to selecting the IBM 
TCP/IP and attaching it to the same adapter.  Depending on the NIC involved, I 
have seen both protocols fail or only the TCP/IP work after selecting the two 
protocols and attaching them in the reverse order.

Sorry for assuming that you were hung from the same tree as I was, since I 
noticed the same rope around your neck. :)

..\\ike

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