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Chapter 6 - Managing Windows 3.1 on Your VINES Workstation

Using the Network Icon

Figure 6-1 Network Screen

View status information.
Set options for network messaging.
Edit your StreetTalk user profile.
Change your password.

Viewing Status Information

Figure 6-2 Browse Screen

Setting Network Options

Figure 6-3 Options Screen

Set preferences for network message notification.
Edit your StreetTalk user profile.
Change your password.

Setting Message Notification Options

Note: The SETMSGS statement in your user profile determines how you are notified of messages. Any changes you make through the Message Popup Options dialog box are valid for your current login session only.

Table 6-1. Message Notification Options

Editing Your StreetTalk User Profile

Changing Your Password

Figure 6-4 Change Password Screen

1. With the cursor in the top text box, enter your current password and press ENTER. The cursor moves to the next text box.

2. Enter your new password and press ENTER. The cursor moves to the bottom text box.

3. Enter your new password again and click OK.

Click Cancel at any time to stop the operation and return to the Options window.

Click Help at any time to view on-line information about changing your password.

Note: Depending on the security enforced at your site, VINES system software maintains a record of the last 10 passwords you use, and may not let you change a password to one used previously. An error message appears if you try to enter an old password. Consult your system administrator for information.

Running Windows with VINES

Protected network connections
Creating PIF files
Running Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) programs
PC Dial-in support
PCPRINT support
NetbiosTM and Named Pipe applications support

Protected Network Connections

Creating PIF Files

Note: Application memory requirements can change with upgrades and patches. PIF files you create at one point for applications (whether they are VINES applications or others) might need updating. Otherwise, problems may result.

Running TSRs

PC Dial-in Support

PCPRINT Support

Example Resolving Device Conflicts

Figure 6-5 Device Conflict Screen

1. Open the Control Panel window and double-click on the 386 Enhanced icon. The 386 Enhanced window appears.

2. In the Device Contention box, select the port specified when the PCPRINT command was issued. (If no port was specified, select LPT1.)

3. Click the Never Warn option button.

4. Click OK.

Figure 6-6 386 Enhanced Screen

Named Pipe Support

Running PCNETB and SETNETB Before Running Windows

1. Log in to the network.

2. If Netbios support is configured through PCCONFIG, skip to step 3. Otherwise, run PCNETB.

3. Run SETNETB and specify the service name.

4. Run Windows.

5. Run Netbios or Named Pipe applications.

If you run multiple applications, they share all Netbios resources, including total sessions, total Netbios names, and the permanent node ID and machine name added by SETNETB.

All names added from within any window are global to any other window opened on the machine. Thus, if an application adds a Netbios name and then quits, the name is still registered to that machine. Another application attempting to add the same unique Netbios name gets an error.

To clear the Netbios name, either:

- Run another application to delete the name.

- Run SETNETB again.

- Reboot the system.

If you close an application's window while there are outstanding Netbios requests, you see an MS-DOS Prompt communications error message.
Multiple applications that attempt to use the same Netbios name may experience some anomalous behavior. For example, if two applications running in different windows submit a LISTEN for the same Netbios name, only one is satisfied by an incoming CALL for that name, just as though the two LISTENs were submitted in the same window.

Running PCNETB and SETNETB After Running Windows

1. Make sure Netbios or Named Pipe support is disabled in PCCONFIG.

2. Log in to the network.

3. Run Windows.

4. Open a MS-DOS window through the MS-DOS Prompt icon.

5. Run PCNETB if you run a Netbios application or INNS.EXE if you run a Named Pipe application.

6. Run SETNETB and specify the service name.

7. Run the Netbios or Named Pipe application.

Note: You can only run one DOS Named Pipes application in this procedure.

Special Considerations

ban /nc
rem enter your LAN card driver
3c503ban.com
rem for DOS 4.x, use redirnp4, BAN would normally load redirx
redirnp4
rem PCNETB or INNS would be loaded at this point by BAz:login
win

PCNETB
rem or enter INNS.EXE
SetNETB service-name

1. In step 2, log in to the network using the BANSTART.BAT file, rather than the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

2. Make sure the WINSTART.BAT file described above is included in the same directory as the WIN.EXE file.

Memory Managers

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