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Chapter 4 - Configuring the Banyan Client for Windows 95

Setting Up User Logins

Setting Up Common Login

To Enable Common Login

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click on the General tab.

6. Select the Use Common Login checkbox to enable Common Login.

Common Login Restrictions

Length of Usernames

Passwords Synchronization for Common Login

PostLogin Command

Using Automatic Login

To Enable Automatic Login

1. Run AUTOLOGN.EXE from a workstation. You can either copy AUTOLOGN.EXE to the workstation and run it locally or run it from the network.

2. Select the Use Automatic Login checkbox.

3. Enter the user's StreetTalk name in the Username field.

4. Enter the user's password in the Password field.

5. Click OK.

Setting a Timeout for the Login Status Box

To Change the Timeout for the Login Status Dialog Box

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the General tab.

6. Select the Use Timeout checkbox to turn the Timeout option on.

7. Change the number of seconds for the Timeout.

Specifying Login Group Lists

To Enter Login Group Lists

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the Login Group tab.

6. Enter up to three Login Groups. Enter the groups in this format: group@organization.

Setting Up System Policies

!WIN95POLICY \\StreetTalk\File Service@Eng@Acme\policies\acme_eng.pol

!WIN95POLICY "Standard Policy@Admin@Acme"

The last !WIN95POLICY statement processed will be the effective policy. If the policy statement specifies a UNC path, that path is returned to Windows 95. For a StreetTalk object policy statement, the StreetTalk attribute's contents are written to a local path, and the pathname is returned to Windows 95.

Configuring VINES Files Options

Mapping VINES Files

To Map VINES Files to an Alternate Drive

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the Drive Mapping tab.

6. In the VINES File drive field, enter the letter of the drive you want to map to VINES Files.

Note: If you have VINES Files mapped to a drive other than Z, the M* applications (MUSER, MSERVICE, and so on) report that they cannot find XSTD.MSG when you press F2. You can encounter similar problems with other Z drive applications that look for VINES Files as drive Z.

Changing the Hop Count

To Change the Hop Count

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the Drive Mapping tab.

6. Enter the minimum number of hops in the Low field.

7. Enter the maximum number of hops in the High field.

Configuring VCONFIG.DAT

To Set VCONFIG.DAT

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the Advanced tab.

6. Enter a text string in the VCONFIG.DAT field.

Supporting 16-bit Banyan Applications

To Load or Unload BANSVC.COM

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheets appear.

5. Click the Advanced tab.

6. Select the Load BANSVC.COM checkbox to load or unload the TSR.

To Change the BANV Interrupt

1. From the Banyan VINES Client for Windows 95 property sheet, click the Advanced tab.

2. Use the arrows to select a value between 60 and 66 in the BANV Interrupt list box.

Selecting the Network Protocol

Note: The IP for Windows 95 option is not available unless you have the Microsoft TCP/IP software installed on the workstation.

To Select the Network Protocol

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Click the General tab.

6. Select either:

- VIP for Windows 95. If you enable VIP, you must select a LAN card. See "Configuring the Network Adapter" below for instructions on selecting a LAN card.

- IP for Windows 95. If you enable IP, you may want to specify preferred IP routing servers. See "Specifying Preferred IP Routing Servers" later in this chapter for instructions.

Configuring the Network Adapter

To Specify a Network Adapter

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Click the Network Adapter tab.

6. Select a network adapter from the drop-down list.

Specifying Preferred IP Routing Servers

To Specify Preferred IP Routing Servers

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Click the Server IP Address tab.

Note: This tab is only available if you have enabled IP for Windows 95.

6. In the LAN IP section, the Dial-Up Addresses section, or both sections, enter one of the following:

- The IP addresses of IP routing servers on a remote segment.

- The IP addresses of remote segments on which one or more IP routing servers exist.

Note: To enhance dial-up performance, only list servers that are close to the LAN that contains the dial-up server.

7. Specify whether the client should use LAN IP addresses, Dial-up IP address, or both by selecting the appropriate radio button.

Configuring Communications Settings

Communications Heap Size - The communications heap size (amount of buffers) must be large enough to handle the number of open SPP connections and open sockets you want to assign. In addition, it must be able to handle the data transmitted by those connections and sockets. Otherwise, the workstation may not have enough communication buffer space when these limits are reached.

Maximum Sockets - Whenever a program communicates with another program, at least one socket is open. Each socket requires 70 to 80 bytes of communications buffer space.

Maximum SPP Connections - Generally, there is one SPP connection for each network file service set at the workstation, and for each active VINES application. Each SPP connection requires 80 to 100 bytes of communications buffer space to maintain the connection.

To Set the Communications Heap Size

1 Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2 Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Click the Configuration tab.

6. In the Communications Heap Size field, enter a value between 16 to 4096. The default setting is 64 KB.

7. In the Maximum Sockets field, enter a value between 10 and 500. The default setting is 100.

8. In the Maximum SPP Connections field, enter a value between 50 and 1000. The default setting is 300.

Enabling Source Level Routing

To Enable SLR

1. Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2. Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Click the Configuration tab.

6. Select the Enable Source Level Routing checkbox.

Changing the Routing Metric

Caution: You should change the routing metric only when instructed by your technical representative. Setting incorrect parameters can cause network communications to fail or adversely affect workstation performance.

To Change the Routing Metric

1 Right-click on the Network Neighborhood icon on your Windows 95 desktop. A context menu appears.

2 Select Properties. The Network property sheet appears.

3. Select Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95.

4. Click Properties. The Banyan VINES Protocol for Windows 95 property sheet.

5. Do one of the following:

- If VIP is the default protocol, click the Configuration tab.

- If IP is the default protocol, click the Server IP Address tab.

6. Click on the arrow in the Routing Metric field and select a setting.

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