Re: Enhanced Integration for Novell NetWare Configuration

On 18th July, Mr.AS400@ibm.net wrote:
>What local IPX support do you need for your 400? Is it interacting 
>with the Novell servers or routing for them?

I'm trying to get AS/400 to interact with the Novell servers. I'm using the 
licensed program Enhanced Integration for Novell NetWare for this purpose. 
With this program, AS/400 users are able to log-in to NetWare servers, 
perform administrative tasks like creating volumes, printing and others. In 
order for this to happen, AS/400 uses the IPX protocol to communicate with 
the NetWare servers on the network. So the first step is to activate this 
protocol on the AS/400 and the second step is to install and load the 
Enhanced Integration for NetWare NLM on the NetWare servers I want the 
AS/400 to communicate with. In my case, the NetWare server is the IPCS on 
the AS/400 (it could be any ordinary PC server attached to the same network 
as the AS/400). If you refer to the manual "OS/400 Integrating AS/400 with 
the NetWare V3R7" SC41-4124-01 Chapter 15 the section on Deciding to what 
to configure, you will find there are 3 possible ways of configuring the 
Enhanced Integration for NetWare depending on the current setup.
1.  An IPCS and the OS/400 Integration for Novell NetWare is 
installed.

2.  An IPCS, the OS/400 Integration for Novell NetWare and 
Enhanced Integration for NetWare is installed.

3.  Enhanced Integration for NetWare is installed but no IPCS is 
installed.

As you can see, my current setup is #2. The manual says that to run 
Enhanced Integration for NetWare over the IPCS, I can use one of the IPX 
descriptions ALREADY on AS/400 (or create a new one); and the circuit that 
was created when OS/400 Integration for Novell NetWare was configured. So, 
I created a new IPX description and tried to reuse the circuit created 
previously. It turns out that the circuit is an FSIOP circuit and it cannot 
be started with Option 9 at the Work with IPx Circuits display. So, now I'm 
confused - what does the manual mean? I then tried to create a new circuit 
with a different name, same line description and same external IPX network 
number but got error that a circuit (i.e. the FSIOP circuit) already exists 
with the same external IPX network number.

Since I was getting anywhere with setup#2, I tried setup#3. Hence, I wrote 
on 18th July:

> Currently, I have set it up in such a way that my AS/400 is
> connected to the LAN via an Ethernet card. The IPCS on the AS/400 is
> connected to the same LAN as well. I created a new ipx description,
> a line description for the Ethernet line and a new ipx circuit for
> setting up as/400 local IPX support.

The new ipx circuit has a different name, different line description BUT 
the SAME external IPX network number.

On 18th July, Mr.AS400@ibm.net wrote:
>By the way, I haven't been able to dig up anything on using SBACKUP 
>via the 400s tape drive. I can't find a book on it. Did you get any 
>further with that? All I see is how to back up the Network Storage 
>Spaces with standard backup. I would like to be able to use SBACKUP or 
>use the AS/400 tape drives via Novell, but ADSM is the only thing I 
>know of for that.

I installed the latest Novell NetWare patches on the NetWare server running 
on the IPCS. Now, I can load SBACKUP just fine, but the AS/400 tape drive 
can't be deallocated after use with SBACKUP. BTW, what do you mean by 
standard backup and ADSM?

Thanks.

Adelaine
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