Re: Network Station Setup

On 15 Oct 97 at 17:38, Chris Cole wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Has anyone got an IBM NC successfully working to an AS/400.  I have two
> problems:
> 
> 1.  The NC won't connect with the AS/400 (via MAC address) if I set the
> NC to boot from the network.  If I set the AS/400's TCP/IP address in
> NVRAM it downloads the kernel OK.
> 
> 2.  After downloading the kernel it should download the login script.
> It falls over at this point becuase it can't find the login.nws at
> /qibm/proddata/networkstation/mods/login.nws.  It has already downloaded
> the fonts from another /qibm path.
> 
> I am connecting via Ethernet and am fairly sure that I have set
> everything correctly.  I can telnet from the NC to the AS/400.
> The result on the NC is that it bombs into the User Services screen and
> not into the Network Station Manager screen.
> 
Chris
Do you have a switch in the equation?  I have been working with a 
switch vendor (OLICOM)  and IBM's TCP/IP group for over a month 
trying to connect IBM Netstations.  I do have token ring rather than 
ethernet but wonder if the problem could be the same?  If we remove 
the switch from the network so we have one big ring, the network 
station connects just fine.  Unfortunately, one big ring is very 
difficult to trouble shoot so we use the switch to divide it up into 
multiple small rings or segments.  We have absolutely no trouble with 
all varieties of PC's (3.1,3.11, NT, Win 95 and OS2).  But, the 
netstation will not work this way.  Switching is becoming more and 
more common, so this definitely needs a solution.  (And netstations 
were suppose to make things easier!!)
Carole Houghton 
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