[107] in OS/2_Discussion
LWP for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pbh@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 15 15:10:03 1994
From: pbh@MIT.EDU
To: pehr@MIT.EDU, avondale@MIT.EDU, wjgjr@MIT.EDU, krlynch@MIT.EDU,
waltrk@MIT.EDU, sdleung@MIT.EDU, wahl@MIT.EDU,
wilson@rigel.lcs.mit.edu, don@djjones.mit.edu
Cc: dosdev@MIT.EDU, os2@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 13:03:28
LWP for is finally available to members of the MIT community via anonymous
ftp to net-dist.mit.edu:/pub/dos/lwp4dos
I realize the path name is a bit ironic :) Thanks for your patience.
Here is a copy of the readme.mit file. At the next OS/2 users group you will
also be able to obtain copies of the disks. Please bring 3 blank 1.44Mb
disks with you.
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Novell Lan Workplace for OS/2 Installation Guide
rev 1.1 [8 Feb 1994]
0. Requirements for Lan Workplace for OS/2*
Before installing Lan Workplace for OS/2, you need to get an IP
address on MITnet. To get one, contact either your RCC (for resnet
users) or send mail to net-help@mit.edu. When submitting your request
please inform the RCC or net-help that the requested IP address is for
an OS/2 machine. This will help us to determine the level of resources that
we need to commit to the OS/2 community within MIT. You need the following
information during installation:
Hostname (e.g. BISTROMATH.MIT.EDU):
IP Address (e.g. 18.177.1.176):
If you already have the Lan Workplace for OS/2 disks, then you can
skip to "I. Requestor disk". Otherwise, follow these instructions to
make the Lan Workplace disks.
The disks can be obtained by anonymous ftp from net-dist.mit.edu, in
/pub/dos/lwp4os2. There are two subdirectories in this directory.
They are recent-updates and zipped-distribution. The zipped-distribution
contains the distribution, but with each disk image compressed using the
zipped format. If you use the PKUNZIP utility to unpack these files onto
floppies you use the -d option to unpack subdirectories as they appear in
the archive file.
For more information on OS/2 and Lan WorkPlace for OS/2, you can do a
search in Techinfo (available on Athena, Macintosh, or DOS platforms)
for the keyword "os2". There are a number of documents available in
techinfo relevant to OS/2.
I. Requestor disk, also known as DISK1
Insert the requestor disk in the disk drive (assumed to be A: here).
Type "A:", then "install" at an OS/2 command prompt (or, alternately,
open the Drive A object on the desktop and double-click on
INSTALL.EXE.) In the window that appears after this, select
"Requester on workstation" from the "Installation" menu. Change the
drives in the dialog that appears as necessary (i.e. if you want to
install the requester on the D: drive or something like that) and
click "OK". Then select "Edit CONFIG.SYS and Copy Files..." and click
"OK". Select your Network Interface Card from the "Combo-box" (an
edit box that also lets you pull down a menu of possible entries) and
leave all the checkboxes unchecked. Then click "Save..." and let it
save as "CONFIG.SYS". Click "OK". Then click "Copy". Next, it will
ask you if you want to put the "Install, Netware Tools, and Remote
Printer Utilities" on your desktop. This is up to you; the utilities
aren't really useful in a pure TCP/IP environment, though. Next, exit
the installation utility and shutdown and reboot the machine.
If, on booting, you get the messages:
NWD0115: Error getting connection ID (0x880F)
and
SYS0059: An unexpected network error occurred.
then you are running on a subnet with no netware servers on it. This
is all right, and you can either ignore these error messages or follow
these (somewhat complicated) instructions to take out support for
Netware servers, leaving in only the network stuff necessary for Lan
WorkPlace's TCP support. You can also follow these instructions if
you don't care about any NetWare servers that happen to be on your
net.
Start up the system editor and load up config.sys. at the bottom of
config.sys you'll see a bunch of lines that have been added by the
NetWare Requester installation program. To stop the errors from
appearing, you can insert the word 'rem' at the beginning of the lines
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=C:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=C:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
i.e. make them read
rem DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
rem IFS=C:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
rem RUN=C:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
II. Lan WorkPlace disks, also known as disk2 and disk3.
Insert disk 1 of Lan WorkPlace in the disk drive (assumed to be A:
here). Type "A:", then "install" at an OS/2 command prompt (this must
be done from a command prompt, for some reason.) The full-screen
install program will begin and ask you what drive you want to install
to. After that, it'll ask you some questions. Here are the questions
it will ask and the answers you should give.
> Do you want your system files updated?
yes
> Enter frame type
Standard Ethernet TCP/IP framing.
> Will a RARP server provide your IP address?
no
> Enter your IP address
[your ip address here, e.g.:]
18.177.1.176
> Is your network partitioned into subnetworks?
yes
> Enter your subnet mask
255.255.0.0
> Does your network have an IP router?
yes
> Enter your IP router address
[your router address - on MITnet, this is always of the form x.x.0.1,
where x.x is the same as the first two numbers of your IP
address - e.g.:]
18.177.0.1
> Should default values be used?
no
[for the next six questions you can select the default]
> Load RFC NetBIOS during system boot?
no [unless you are trying to use LAN Manager and TCP/IP at the same time]
> Does your network have a Domain Name server?
yes
> Enter the domain name for your site
mit.edu
> Enter your Domain Name Server's IP Address
18.72.0.3
> Enter your username.
[your username, e.g.:]
shabby
It will now begin copying files to the hard drive, and then it will
ask you to insert disk 2. Do so. Then, it'll ask you to reboot your
computer. Press enter, then when it says installation completed
properly, exit the install program and shutdown and reboot your
system.
Congratulations. Your OS/2 machine should now be on the net. To test
this, type "ping bitsy" at an OS/2 command prompt. It should respond
"bitsy.mit.edu is alive".
Now you need to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Load it into your favorite
text editor, and at the end of the file, add the line:
SET EXCELAN=x:\LANWP
That should do it.
III. Techmail
Here are instructions to get techmail over the network, using ftp.
Get an OS/2 command prompt, and change directory to the root directory
of the drive you want to install techmail on. Then, type "md net",
then "md net\mit" to create the directories for TechMail. Change
directory to it with "cd \net\mit". Now, open an ftp connection to
net-dist:
>[C:\NET\MIT]ftp net-dist
>FTP - Copyright (c) 1992, Novell, Inc. The LAN WorkPlace for OS/2
>220 bitsy FTP server (Version wu-2.1b(17) Mon Aug 30 20:50:36 EDT 1993) ready.
>Remote User Name:
type "anonymous" at this prompt.
>Remote Password:
Type your email address at this prompt. It will appear as asterisks.
>ftp>
Tow type "cd /pub/dos/techmail-win". Notice the forward slashes.
Next type:
bin
get get-tm.dat
cd ../kerberos-bin
get krbdll.dll
quit
Now you should have your OS/2 prompt back. Now type "ftp -X <
get-tm.dat". You now have the TechMail files on your system.
Now comes the configuration of the system. First, you need to edit
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Load it into your favorite text editor, and
add to the PATH statement the directory "x:\NET\MIT" (where x is the
drive you installed Techmail on.) You may also want to add this
directory to the PATH statement in CONFIG.SYS, in order to be able to
run techmail from the OS/2 command line. Next, you need to create a
program object and/or entry in Windows Program Manager to start
Techmail. Create it with the executable as "x:\NET\MIT\TECHMAIL.EXE"
with command line parameters "x:\NET\MIT\TECHMAIL.INI". If you run it
from the command line, run it as "TECHMAIL x:\NET\MIT\TECHMAIL.INI".
Next, you must set up Techmail to run under OS/2. OS/2 doesn't have
Kerberos support or Hesiod support yet. Start TechMail, and select
the menu item "File->User Preferences->Get Mail" and turn off all
three checkboxes that refer to Hesiod or Kerberos support. (If, on
starting TechMail, you get the message "An error has occurred in your
application...If you choose Close, your application will terminate",
then click "OK" or "Close" and CD x:\NET\MIT and rename vs.dll to some
other filename. Then try again, and ignore the "File Error" each time
you start TechMail.) Then type in your post office server in the Post
Office Server field. After clicking "OK", everything should be set up
for running TechMail normally.
* Lan Workplace for OS/2 is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc.
