From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: IBM LAN Server over Ethernet --- please help!
Organization: CARD
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:29:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.161332.29967@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>                                                                                              
dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math) writes:                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                      
>I'd greatly appreciate help with this:                                                                                                               
>                                                                                                                                                     
>I'm trying to put up Lan Server basic 2.0 on a little Ethernet using SMC                                                                             
>(former Western Digital) cards. The diagnostics program that came with                                                                               
>the card is able to send and receive packets among the machines, so the                                                                              
>cabling is probably OK.                                                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>The MAC section of the protocol.ini file on the server only has entries                                                                              
>for IRQ, ram window, and I/O port --- the rest is default. 'NET START                                                                                
>SERVER' works with no error messages and I can log in locally. (There's                                                                              
>no local loop and the server doesn't start if, e.g., the Ethernet cable                                                                              
>is disconnected). 'NET ERROR' is empty.                                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>There are no OS/2 workstations (for now, will be later).                                                                                             
>                                                                                                                                                     
>The MAC section of the protocol.ini file on the DOS workstations (level                                                                              
>60000) only has entries for IRQ, ram window, and I/O port --- the rest                                                                               
>is default. I also tried setting receive buffer to 256 and 1024 and                                                                                  
>various values for queues et al with no effect. The config.sys has the 3                                                                             
>DXM files; the E0 file has a 40K workspace (probably an overkill) and                                                                                
>the T0 file has the default sessions/stations/names and O=N as the                                                                                   
>documentation says; I also tried specifying transmit buffer to 1.4K as                                                                               
>the documentation says and 1 or 2 buffers with no effect.                                                                                            
>                                                                                                                                                     
>What do I mean by 'no effect'? Netbind and 'net start' run with no error                                                                             
>messages (I tried both RDR and RCV in DOSLAN.INI). However, 'net logon                                                                               
>user pw' waits for a very long time and says 'Unable to contact the                                                                                  
>domain controller'. Argh! :)                                                                                                                         
>                                                                                                                                                     
>I've been successfully running LAN Server with Token Ring on another set                                                                             
>of PCs, have written fairly complex services and utils, am familiar and                                                                              
>very happy with it, and can try to answer questions about that. I'm                                                                                  
>confident that that part (IBMLAN.INI / DOSLAN.INI) is fine. My problem                                                                               
>seems to be with Ethernet, which I've installed for the first time in my                                                                             
>life. There's plenty of Ethernet here at GC under Novell and our kind                                                                                
>systems people know nothing about LAN Server.                                                                                                        
>                                                                                                                                                     
>I have all LAN Server documentation, and access to Microsoft and 3COM                                                                                
>documentation from 'previous lives'. No help there, except a few                                                                                     
>Etherner notes that I've already tried.                                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>I would *greatly appreciate* if some friendly soul _succeffully_ running                                                                             
>the configuration I'm trying to set up (LAN server, DOS LAN requesters,                                                                              
>Ethernet (preferably SMC/WD)) could kindly e-mail me their                                                                                           
>configuration: (protocol.ini, config.sys, lanman.ini, doslan.ini) so I                                                                               
>could see what I might be missing there; or otherwise suggest what could                                                                             
>be going wrong or how I could gather more diagnostic information.                                                                                    
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Many thanks in advance for any responses!                                                                                                            
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Dimitri                                                                                                                                              
>Dimitri Vulis                                                                                                                                        
>CUNY GC Math                                                                                                                                         
>DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET DLV@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU                                                                                                         
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>Disclaimer: my Usenet postings don't necessarily represent anyone's views,                                                                           
>especially my own and/or CUNY's.                                                                                                                     
>                                                                                                                                                     
Just a comment to make sure and double check the default domain name in DOSLAN.                                                                       
INI and make sure the same as in IBMLAN.INI on the server.                                                                                            
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University