
              NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              NetWare Connect Maintenance and 4.01 Compatibility
DOCUMENT ID:        TID250080
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               10JUN94
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         NWC001.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare Connect 1.0

ABSTRACT:

NWC001.EXE and NWC002.EXE must be used together.
They provide: 1) The latest "patches" for NetWare Connect 1.0. 2) Files to
make NWC more compatible with NetWare 4.01 and 3) New features.  NWC001 and
NWC002 contain ALL "Fixes" in PTF 442 and PTF 440 plus several more. PLEASE
read "Solution" and "Installation Instructions".

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SYMPTOM

General
1.  MPR switching to a System Console screen if run on a Connect server.

2.  Sometimes, Netware Connect would appear to install but the install program
could not read the license disk.

3.  Sometimes, NetWare Connect and the license disk would appear to install,
but an attempt to add new ports would result in the "Port license has been
exceeded" error.

4.  Divide by zero error.

5.  Server locks if a DOWN/EXIT is done while a NWC port is connected.

NCS
1.  Until the release of PTF 439/442 and PTF 440, if NetWare Connect was
installed in a NetWare 4.x server, the server could abend.

2.  NCS Maximum Connect timer not accurate.

3.  NCS timer starts at host connection time and not at remote session start
time.

4.  NINT14 unable to access a port with the same General Name, even with /G
option.

5. Characters could be lost in bi-directional file transfers, particularly
when using ASCII protocol.  (In order to correct this, NASI has been changed
to synchronize with NCS before a data transfer.)

6. NASI applications hang when accessing ports with a status of "broken". 
(NCS ports, with a displayed status of "broken" will no longer be available to
choose.)

7. Failure to dial out.  (corrected by the AT command ATS0=x being  handled
differently.)

8. Long delay when dialing out of a modem independent port.  (Should now be
approximately only 10 seconds.)

9. Before the patch, if a port was left configured as unknown, it was
advertised as available, and an attempt to use it would make all ports
unavailable.  (Ports will now configured as "None" by default.)

NRN/ARAS
1. Retransmit failures.  (A retransmit will no longer be a unsuccessful when a
NAK is received from NRN.  This addresses a latent problem relative to
Citrix's WINview product.

2. The Macintosh utility, ARAS Set Password, could not change a password.

3. Lines dropping and retransmits at speeds above 9600 bps with Windows on the
client.

4. Data loss resulting in termination of connection.

5. Slow performance with Remote Node.

6. Slow performance with X.25.

(NRN/RNS and X.25 performance will now be faster.  However, speed will still
be restricted by the ability of the modem used.)

SOLUTION

1.  Apply both NWC001.EXE and NWC002.EXE:

- If NetWare Connect will be on a NetWare 4.01 server, follow the instructions
in 4X.TXT.

- If NetWare Connect will be on a NetWare 3.x server, follow the instructions
in 3X.TXT.

2.  Download the latest NWCMOD.EXE:

- If you have an AIOMDMS.MDC dated before 12-14-93
          or

- If you have a modem not supported by your current AIOMDMS.MDC.

3. If you have a 9600bps, or faster, modem and a fairly error free link, you
can enhance performance by increasing packet size.  To increase packet size,
edit NET.CFG by adding the following line under the Link Driver NRN section:

     PACKET LENGTH n

     n can range from the default of 512 to
     a maximum of 1428.

     For example, replace n with 1024.

   Similarly, decrease the packet size if your connection is prone to errors.

4.  Using NRN at speeds above 9,600bps tend to result in line drops and
retransmit problems if the remote work station has a 8250 or 16450 UART.

To get dependable, fast performance with Remote Node, Novell recommends that
the remote computer's serial port have a 16550 UART.  When you load NRN.COM,
it will prompt you if a 16550 UART has been detected.  NRN.COM will not prompt
you about anything if it detects a 8250 or 16450 UART (this will be fixed in a
future patch).  However, after the installation of this PTF, RNS will support
some RNS connections at higher modem rates than it formerly did.

NOTE: Many internal modems include 8250 or 16450 UART emulation.

5. NEW FEATURE:

A TTY mode has been added to Dialcon that allows you to issue commands to
intermediate devices such as challenge/response security units.

6. NEW FEATURE:

AICON defaults changed; AIOCON, defaults to "Any Application" to allow other
AIO products to use AIOCON.

7. NEW FEATURE

Dial-in users will now show in the Audit Trail if they go through the complete
login sequence and selected a service.

8. NEW FEATURE (carried over from prior PTF)

NRN/RNS Download Notification TSR
NetWare Connect's Remote Node service is designed to transfer data and is
reasonably fast for that purpose.  However, as with all other asynchronous
remote node products, the practicality of program execution across the phone
lines is severely limited by available modem speeds.  In most cases, it is
more effective to use "Remote Control" rather than "Remote Node" for the
execution of programs which reside on the central file server.  (Through
experimentation you may determine that some programs execute across the line
acceptably, particularly with 28.8 modems.)

Because it is usually advisable to avoid loading programs across the line,
this patch includes the TSR, NETWARN.COM.  After it is loaded, NetWarn will
notify the Remote Node Service user of the path and size of a "large" file
when it is accessed.  This gives the remote user the opportunity to stop the
access before the asynch connection becomes tied up for an unacceptable period
of time.

NOTE: Do not load NetWarn until RNS connection is established.

NetWarn supports the following options:
     netwarn [/d | /e | /u | /p | /s ]
     /d   disables NetWarn
     /e   enables NetWarn
     /u   unloads NetWarn
     /p   displays the path of the executable
     /s=n sets the file size in KB which will trigger a warning
         (n can range from 0 through 9999)

The default value for n is 5KB.

Self-Extracting File Name:  NWC001.EXE     Revision:  A

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

\
  NWC001.TXT         (This File)
      3X.TXT       2826   06-09-94    3:05p
      4X.TXT       2563   06-01-94   11:40a
     AIO.NLM      83033   05-04-94    2:11p
     NCS.NLM      61791   05-05-94    4:25p
     RNS.LAN      23132   06-08-94    1:20p
    NASI.EXE      33270   03-25-94   11:42a
    NASU.NLM      75304   02-10-94    2:39p
  NCSCON.NLM      31436   02-09-94    1:29p
  NINT14.COM       2944   04-04-94   11:30a
  NWCLIC.NLM      13703   02-09-94    1:27p
  README.NWC      18332   06-01-94   11:18a
 AIOCOMX.NLM      17537   06-01-94    1:35p
 CONNECT.001        904   06-09-94   11:05a
 CONNECT.RMV       2325   06-09-94   11:08a
 NWCSTAT.NLM      15666   02-09-94    1:14p
 PRODUCT.DEF        631   05-09-94    5:05p
CSINSTAL.HLP       2336   03-09-93    6:44p
NCSCNVRT.NLM      31971   02-09-94    1:22p
NWCCLEAN.NLM       1694   02-09-94    1:25p
NWCCNVRT.NLM      52467   02-09-94    1:31p
NWCNCFRM.NLM      63048   02-09-94    1:26p
PINSTALL.NLM      95522   09-17-93    2:28p
\NWC001\
        NW3X              05-11-94    3:38p
        NW4X              05-11-94    3:38p
\NW3X\
    ARAS.LAN      39031   01-18-94    9:41a
 ARASCON.NLM      27432   02-09-94    1:30p
\NW4X\
     AIO.NLM      90350   05-04-94    2:20p
    ARAS.LAN      39101   01-18-94    9:42a
    NASU.NLM      89565   02-10-94    2:23p
   PM401.NLM       8113   02-03-94    1:09a
 ARASCON.NLM      27485   02-09-94    1:30p
 SPXFIX2.NLM       1023   11-23-93    8:52a
NCSCNVRT.NLM      45279   02-09-94    1:28p
NWCNCFRM.NLM      76331   02-09-94    1:28p

Installation Instructions:

To install on a NetWare 3.X server, read 3X.TXT.

To install on a NetWare 4.01 server, read 4X.TXT.

Patch History:

NWC001 supersedes PTF 442.

NWC002 supersedes PTF 440.

PTF 442 superseded PTF 439.

PTF 439 and PTF 440 together superseded PTF 436 which was the first
maintenance PTF for NetWare Connect.

Nothing supersedes NWCMOD.EXE which provides the latest modem scripts
(AIOMDMS.MDC).  "Patches" for NetWare Connect will be in three separate
series:

- Maintenance
- Third party AIO drivers for multiport adapter boards.
- Updates of NetWare Connect's modem support.  To access the most current
modem scripts available, go to NOVLIB Library 9 and download NWCMOD.EXE. 
NWCMOD.EXE is periodically updated with additional and improved modem scripts.

All registered owners of NetWare Connect 1.0 (8 port or 32 port) either
received RunTime NetWare 4.01 on a CDROM in the NetWare Connect box, or have
been sent a CDROM with RunTime NetWare 4.01.  Everyone who has the NetWare
4.01 CDROM has the SAME NetWare Connect files that were in PTF 442 and PTF
440.  If have 8 or 32 port NetWare Connect and have not received the NetWare
4.01 CDROM, please send in the registration form.

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