I am trying to put together a 2 user Novell Intranetware 4.11 network. I
have a win95 system with a 32 bit card and a dos 286 sytem with a 16 bit
card. The server is on the win95 system. I am having a real hard time
trying to get the dos system to recognize the NIC and to communicate
with the network. Booting up the server, and then running lsl, the odi
driver, and the vlm on the dos workstation system doesn't seem to do
anything. The server isn't recognized. In addition, I have tried running
the diagnostics program on the workstation NIC and it reports that the
cable is faulty - but i have tried two different cables, the latest
being a Thin Ethernet Coaxial cable. I have configured the NIC via
software to specifiy the BNC Thin Ethernet connection.
I have also tried a "simple" Win 95 peer to peer connection, by installing
the microsoft network drivers on the Win95 system and then downloading the 
os
client from microsoft and installing that on the dos system. The win 95
system recongizes itself in network neighborhood but does not recognize the
dos system. Any suggestions? Am I doing everything right? Is there any step
I am missing??
Questions:
1) Is the dos system missing anything? Currently it is configured this way:
in autoexec.bat, it loads:
lsl.com
driver.com (driver of nic)
ipxodi.com
vlm
The net.cfg file specifies the correct irq and port being used (irq 15,
port addres 300)  and specifies the correct driver. The workstation NIC is
a DE -220 Series ISA Ethernet 16 bit NIC. (This is my second card, the other
one was a generic ethernet ne2000 compatable card too and it didn't work
either, giving me other but similar problems.
I gather that after I run "server" on the server and it is in console mode,
I am supposed to be able to boot up the workstation and chance to the "f:"
driver. It won't do this.
2) Is there any simple fail proof program I can run to at least test the two
cards and see if they are communicating?
Please reply to my email address: charlie1@vabch.com
Please HELP!!  Thanks.
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