From: thor@arrakis.denver.co.us (Robert B. Hood)
Subject: Re: desqview/X IPX<->TCP/IP
Keywords: TCP/IP IPX desqview X
Organization: Bob's Programming Paradise, Lakewood, CO, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:05:54 GMT

In article <1bhjdjINNle8@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> hm@risc5.mi.Uni-Koeln.DE (Harald Mika) writes:
>We are using Desqview/X within our institut. So far we use a version 
>which supports IPX. Nevertheless we want to work Desqiew/X 
>together with our UNIX-Workstations and XStations. 
>I assume we need a TCP/IP driver on the PC-side. Now my questions:
>
>1. Is it possible to work with Desqview/X under IPX and TCP/IP?
>
>2. Which steps do I have to perform to make Desqview/X work with TCP/IP?
>
>3. Which drivers are necessary and where can we get them? (We already use ibmtoke and ibx,
>    our network is an IBM-tokenring, I am so sorry, it's not my fault!)
>
>Thanks in advance!
>

I am deeply involved in getting DV/X, FTP's PC/TCP 2.05 pl4, and IPX/NETX
to operate in harmony.  I have accomplished the some merging before, but with
DESQview 2.04, not DV/X.

Materials: DV/X 1.02, PC/TCP 2.05 pl4, Novell NetWare 3.11, 3Com 3C503
           Ethernet Card

Systems:   Generic '486 33 (8MB RAM), Silicon Graphics IRIS SuperMini on
           TCP/IP network.

I have sucessfully integrated all of these tools, and I have concurrent
access to both the NetWare 3.11 network and the IRIS mini via TCP/IP.  I
can run NetWare utilities side-by-side with Telnet, FTP, and X Clients 
on the IRIS.

             1.  Load IFCUST.SYS and IPCUST.SYS in CONFIG.SYS
             2.  Load your packet driver (I run Clarkson's
                 3C503.COM packet driver using the default
                 interrupt address of 0x60 - Thanks Mark!)
             3.  Load the public-domain, multi-protocol IPX.COM
                 also available on sun.soe.clarkson.edu (PDIPX.ZIP,
                 I think)
             4.  Load Novell's NETX.COM
             5.  Run IFCONFIG and IPCONFIG to configure your
                 IFCUST.SYS and IPCUST.SYS (multi-user environment
                 usually) if they are not already hard-configured
             6.  Load ETHDRV.EXE
             7.  Load DV/X (with TCP/IP Network Manager installed).

If you are running TCP/IP only (no NetWare connections), you can perform
some pretty slick tricks, illustrated in the FAQ for this group, to load
*all* the drivers (and the mouse driver also) into the DV/X server's space,
so that it doesn't take up any of your DV/X window kernel space.  I've done
it just to see it work, and I got a *594K* DOS window and could still Telnet
and FTP into the IRIS, also running X Clients!  See the FAQ for more
info on this.

However, I need both connections, and at this point (I'm waiting for a reply
from Tech Support), I can only get IPX.COM to sucessfuly load into the server's
space -- NETX.COM will cause the Network Manager to fail to initialize, and
eventually hang my machine.

Hope that helps a little.

Bob
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