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Installing Banyan Clients for Windows NT and Windows 95/98

Introduction

Intended Audience

Chapter 1 - Installing the Banyan Client for Windows NT

System Requirements

Note: If your Windows NT clients use IP as their network protocol, you must have at least one VINES server running 6.20 (0) or greater in your network. See Chapter 6 for instructions on configuring servers to support IP routing.

To Install the Client Software

1. Log into your Windows NT workstation or StreetTalk for Windows NT server using an Windows NT Administrator ID that has rights to change system-wide registry settings.

2. Do one of the following:

- Insert the Banyan Client Components CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your workstation.

- Map a drive to the network file service containing the Banyan Client for Windows NT software.

3. Do one of the following:

- If you are running Windows NT 3.51, select File, Run from the Program Manager. The Run dialog box appears.

- If you are using Windows NT 4.0, select Start, Run from Taskbar. The Run dialog box appears.

4. Do one of the following:

- If installing from CD-ROM, enter D:\winnt\setup and click OK (assuming drive D is the CD-ROM drive). The International dialog box appears.

- If installing from the network, enter X:\<directory_name>\setup and click OK (assuming drive X is the network file service that contains the Banyan Client software, and <directory_name> is the directory location of the software). The International dialog box appears.

5. Select the language you want as the default client language and click OK. The Banyan Setup dialog box appears.

6. Click Install. The Install Directory dialog box appears.

The default directory is c:\vines (referred to in this document as c:\<vinesdir>). Most client software components are installed in this directory and in subdirectories created under it. The remainder are installed in the <windir>\system32 directory, where <windir> is winnt35 by default.

7. Click Continue. The Locations dialog box appears.

8. Use the Add and Remove buttons to select which locations (language versions) of the client software you want to install on the the workstation and click Continue. The Network Communications dialog box appears.

9. Do one of the following:

- To use IP as the client's network protocol, select the Enable IP Encapsulation checkbox. The Network Adapter section of the dialog box is replaced by the Server IP Addresses section. Go to Step 10.

Note: The Enable IP Encapsulation checkbox is active only if you have Microsoft's TCP/IP stack installed.

- To use VIP (VINES Internet Protocol) as the client's network protocol, select the LAN adapter used by the workstation. You can use any Ethernet, Token-Ring, or FDDI LAN card with NDIS 3.0 drivers compatible with Windows NT. Go to Step 11.

10. To specify the IP address of your preferred IP routing server, enter IP routing server addresses in the Server IP Addresses section, the Dial-up Server IP Addresses section, or both sections. Specify whether the workstation should use LAN IP addresses, Dial-up IP addresses, or both by selecting the appropriate checkbox. For an explanation of preferred IP routing servers, see "Selecting Preferred IP Routing Servers" in Chapter 2 or the Banyan on-line help. If neither checkbox is selected, the workstation broadcasts for an IP routing server.

The following table summarizes the effect of the two checkboxes.

11. Configure the communications options. It is recommended that you use the default settings for the following:

- Communication Heap Size: This setting refers to the communication buffer size. The default size is 256 KB. The range is from 16 KB to 4096 KB. The setting must be large enough to handle the number of open SPP connections and Sockets.

Note: Although the maximum heap size is 4096 KB, many workstations do not have enough memory to support a 4096 KB comm heap. Workstations with 32 MB of RAM can support a communication heap of up to 4096 KB, but workstations with 16 MB of RAM can support a comm heap of up to only 1024 KB.

- Number of Sockets: Whenever a program communicates with another program, at least one socket (logical address) is open. Each socket requires 70 to 80 bytes of the communication buffer. The default is 100 sockets. The range is from 10 sockets to 500 sockets.

- SPP Connections: One SPP (Sequenced Packet Protocol) connection is created for each network file service mapped to the workstation, for each NETBIOS session, or for any type of host connection. Each SPP requires 80 bytes to 100 bytes of the communication buffer. The default is 300 connections. The range is from 50 connections to 1000 connections.

- Enable Source Level Routing: Enable SLR only if the client sends and receives data through IBM Token-Ring bridges, and the Token-Ring LAN to which your workstation is connected has no servers with source level routing enabled. This option is only available if the client is using VIP as the network protocol.

12. When you finish configuring the communications options, click Continue. The Banyan Enterprise Client dialog box appears.

13. Specify a Login Group List. This feature lets you specify up to three groups that the login program searches when you only enter the first part of your three-part StreetTalk name. For more information on login groups, see "Configuring Login Options" in Chapter 2.

14. Enable or disable the following Login Options:

- Load Banyan Client Software during System Start: Enabling this option loads the Banyan client software each time your computer boots. Loading the client software at system start makes the login process faster.

- Use Windows NT Login for Banyan Login (common login): Enabling this option lets you use your Windows NT username and password as a common login to the Banyan network. This option passes the Windows NT login name together with the groups in the Login Group List and your password to the client for use in the Banyan login. For more information on Common Login, see "Setting Up Common Login" in Chapter 2.

- Timeout Login Status Display Box: Enabling this option lets you specify the length of time the Login Status dialog box remains on the screen after login processing has completed.

Note: the Login Status timeout period does not start until after your client has located a VINES file server. Depending on your network configuration, this may cause the Login Status dialog box to remain on the screen for much longer than the timeout period.

15. Click Continue. The Banyan Desktop Configuration dialog box appears.

16. Enable or disable the following configuration options:

- Create Program Group: Enabling this option creates a program group that contains all the Banyan Client applications for Windows NT.

- Change the name of the program group: VINES is the default name of the program group. If desired, change the name of this group.

- Change AUTOEXEC.NT to load the TSR: This option loads support for 16-bit Banyan DOS and Windows applications in an Windows NT environment. Enabling this option loads the TSR BANSVC.COM. If you do not enable this option, you must manually run the TSR before you can run Banyan Applications Toolkit DOS programs.

BANSVC.COM is needed to support 16-bit DOS applications on a Windows NT system because on Windows NT, DOS is only loaded as another process. Therefore, DOS has no direct knowledge of where local or network resources are located or how to access them. BANSVC.COM intercepts interrupt requests made by DOS applications and sends these requests to the Windows NT operating system.

Note: The Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program, BANSVC.COM, is installed in c:\<vinesdir>\apps.

17. Click Continue. The Configure Network Workstation Name dialog box appears. This dialog box lets you enter information that the workstation uses for communication with WinSock-based applications. It is recommended that you leave this screen blank unless you are using a third-party WinSock application.

See "Enabling Communication with Distributed WinSock Applications" in Chapter 2 for detailed information on configuring your computer for WinSock support.

18. Click Continue. The VINES File Service Revision dialog box appears.

19. Set the client's preferred VINES Files revision by doing the following:

- In the Preferred Revision box, enter the numbers of the maximum acceptable revision and the minimum acceptable revision in their respective fields. Enter the revision number as 5 digits without any punctuation. The last two digits of the maximum value must be 99.

- In the Alternate Revision box, enter the numbers of the maximum alternate revision and the minimum alternate revision in their respective fields. Enter the revision number as 5 digits without any punctuation. The last two digits of the maximum value must be 99.

For example, if your network consists of 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x servers, and you want to connect to a 6.x VINES Files service, you could enter the following:

Maximum 69999
Minimum 60000

Note: Specifying a limited range can significantly increase the time it takes your client to find a VINES Files server. While the client is searching for a matching version of VINES Files, the Close button on the Login Status dialog box is greyed out. The client uses the following order when searching for VINES Files:

search 0 hops away for the Primary Revision
search 1 hop away for the Primary Revision
search 0 hops away for the Alternate Revision
search 1 hop away for the Alternate Revision
search 0 hops away for any revision
search 1 hop away for any revision

20. Click Continue to save your changes or Default to restore the default values. The Toolkit Options dialog box appears. Do not install the Banyan Client Toolkit for Windows NT unless you develop client applications for Windows NT.

- To install the Banyan Client Toolkit for Windows NT, click Yes.

- To skip installing the Banyan Client Toolkit for Windows NT, click No.

The system copies files from the CD-ROM or from the network, stops VINES services, configures your network settings, and creates the Banyan program group.

21. After the program group is created, the system prompts you to restart your workstation. Click Restart Now to restart your workstation.

Note: You must restart your workstation in order to access the Banyan network. If you select Exit, you must later restart your workstation through the Program Manager before you can access the Banyan network.

Removing Banyan Client Software

To Remove Banyan Client Software

1. Insert the Banyan Client Components CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your workstation.

2. Do one of the following:

- If you are running Windows NT 3.51, select File, Run from the Program Manager. The Run dialog box appears.

- If you are using Windows NT 4.0, select Start, Run from Taskbar. The Run dialog box appears.

3. Enter d:\winnt\setup /uninstall (assuming drive D: is your CD-ROM drive). This program stops Banyan Client software if necessary, deletes installed software, and removes entries made to the Windows NT Registry.

4. Open the Control Panel.

5. Double-click the Network icon. The Network Settings dialog box appears.

6. Select VINES IP Protocol and click Remove.

7. Reboot your workstation.

Caution: After running the Banyan Client Uninstall utility, you must reboot the workstation. If you do not reboot the workstation, you receive a Service Dependency Update Failure during reinstallation of the Banyan Client software.

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