From: "Chris Wells" 
Subject: Re: DOS connecting to a Novell server
Date: 2000/08/10
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: Warwick Online
NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Aug 2000 19:18:14 GMT
Newsgroups: fido.novell

once you connect to the Novell server, how do you assign a drive letter so
you can get to it?? it says I connect, and I can do the NET commands but
can't get to any directories or anything on the server


"agonta"  wrote in message
news:398C0BDD.9F96B19F@home.net...
> Chris,
>
> The NET.CFG file has one error, and that is, the
> statement reads, EL90X.DOS, and instead, should
> simply read EL90X. Thus, this statement is being ignored.
>
> Please remember that any NIC card driver that ends in
> ".DOS" is not a driver for DOS for NOvell, but rather
> it's a NDIS 3.0 driver, not an ODI driver. In other words,
> Novell's drivers end in "*.COM" and Microsoft's end
> in "*.DOS"
>
> Thus, a typical installation would be like this:
>
> contents of STARTNET.BAT:
>
> c:\nwclient\lsl.com
> c:\nwclient\el90x.com
> c:\nwclient\ipxodi.com
> c:\nwclient\vlm /mx
> f:
> cx
> (change to your desired context)
> login servername/volume name
>
>
> Your NET.CFG file likewise will be in c:\nwclient as a typical
> directory. Press F8 when you boot up your machine. If
> startnet.BAT will usually be invoked from AUTOEXEC.BAT
> Thus, you'll be able to see each driver load one a time,
> and learn the location of the drivers and which drivers
> are or are not loading.
>
>                      Good luck.
>
>
>
>                                Alex
> Chris Wells wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble, maybe someone can help me.....
> >
> > We have a Novell server here at work and all the stations that connect
to it
> > use DOS. When I started using computers, it was when win3.1 was out and
> > win95 just became available so I dont know too much about DOS.....
> >
> > When trying to connect, i get the message saying "Network adapter not
found
> > or not responding. Try using SLOT_ENABLE driver keyword in the NET.CFG."
> >
> > Here is my net.cfg file:
> >
> > LINK DRIVER EL90X.DOS
> >
> >     FRAME ETHERNET_802.3    ;Common protocol all players use
> >     INT 10                  ;Card Interrupt
> >     PORT 8400               ;Card IO Address
> >
> > I dunno, I've been trying different things all week. Can anyone help?
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Chris