Working with NetWare Connectivity

Because LAN Manager, Windows NT, and NetWare share the drive letters that can be assigned to network directories, be careful when you assign drive letters to network directories.

It is a good idea to use only drive letters from D to P for Windows NT and LAN Manager directories, and drive letters from Q to Z for NetWare directories.

	NOTE: Usually, the last drive letter you should assign to LAN Manager or Windows NT directories is P, but your network administrator may have set up your workstation differently. Your administrator can tell you which letters to assign to which networks.

If you try to assign a wrong drive letter to a network directory, you will see an error message. If you use the LAN Manager net use command to try to assign a drive letter that is too close to Z as a Windows NT or LAN Manager directory, you will see this message:

DOS Error 15 has occurred.
SYS0015: The system cannot find the drive specified.

If you use the NetWare map command to try to assign a drive letter too close to A as a NetWare directory, you will see this message:

Drive X is in use by a local drive.Do you want to assign it as 
network drive? (Y/N) Y

If you see this message, press n. Pressing n prevents you from assigning a single drive to two directories simultaneously.

If you do assign a single drive letter to both a Windows NT or LAN Manager directory and a NetWare directory, you will be unable to access the Windows NT or LAN Manager directory. When you use that drive letter in a command, it will always refer to the NetWare directory.

If you find that you have a drive letter assigned to a Windows NT or LAN Manager directory and to a NetWare directory, cancel the connection to one of the directories. You can then reconnect to that directory using a different drive letter.

For example, suppose you have the G drive assigned to both a LAN Manager directory and a NetWare directory (the PUBLIC directory on the NETWARE1 server). You can delete the connection to the NetWare directory by typing:

map del g:

You can then reconnect using a different drive letter, such as V, by typing:

map v: = netware1/sys:/public

Note that on LAN Manager Enhanced workstations, when you use a LAN Manager command to view the drive letters on your workstation that are assigned to network directories, only drive letters assigned to Windows NT and LAN Manager directories appear. Similarly, when you use a NetWare command to do this, only NetWare directories appear.

For example, suppose you have assigned drive F to a Windows NT Advanced Server directory, and assigned drives Q and Z to NetWare directories. If you type net use (the LAN Manager command to view directories your workstation has connections to), only F appears. If you type map (the NetWare equivalent), only drives Q and Z appear.

LAN Manager, Windows NT, and NetWare must share the printer devicenames (such as LPT1 and LPT2) available on your workstation. Do not assign a single printer devicename to printer queues or more than one network at the same time. If you do, you can use only the LAN Manager queue referred to by that devicename.

The LAN Manager command that lists devicenames assigned to network printers (net use) shows only Windows NT and LAN Manager printer queues. The NetWare command (capture) shows only NetWare printer queues. When you need to connect to a new printer, first check your current connections to both types of queues, and then use a devicename not already in use.

For example, suppose you need to connect to the printer queue LASER2 on the server PRODUCT. First, check your current connections with the net use and capture commands.

Typing the LAN Manager command net use displays:

Status      Local name        Remote name
--------------------------------------------------------
OK          LPT2              \\LMSERVER\PRINTER

Typing the NetWare command capture displays:

Device LPT1: re-routed to queue QUEUE_1 on server NWSERVER

Now that you see that the LPT1 and LPT2 devicenames on your workstation are already being used, you should assign LPT3 to the new printer queue.

	NOTE: Be cautious before you assign LPT1 to a Windows NT or LAN Manager printer queue. On most NetWare networks, when you log on to a NetWare server, the LPT1 devicename is automatically assigned to a NetWare printer queue. If you assign LPT1 to a Windows NT or LAN Manager printer queue, you will be unable to access the NetWare printer queue.

If you have assigned a devicename to both a Windows NT or LAN Manager printer queue and a NetWare printer queue, cancel the connection to one of the printer queues, and then connect to that printer queue using another devicename. For example, if you find that LPT1 is assigned to a LAN Manager printer queue (the LASER printer queue on the SALES server) and to a NetWare printer queue, cancel the connection to the LAN Manager printer queue by typing:

net use lpt1 /d

You can then reconnect to that printer queue using a different devicename, such as LPT2:

net use lpt2 \\sales\laser

With NetWare Connectivity, when both NetWare and LAN Manager are running, you can easily use LAN Manager commands and NetWare commands. When you type a LAN Manager command, a Windows NT computer or LAN Manager server processes it; when you type a NetWare command, NetWare processes it.

The following table shows equivalent commands in NetWare and LAN Manager. If you are an experienced NetWare user new to LAN Manager (or vice versa), use this table to find the correct commands.

You can also see this table onscreen by typing net help netware at a computer that has LAN Manager and NetWare Connectivity.

NetWare command	LAN Manager command	Explanation and example
attach	none	Establishes a link between your workstation and a server, so that you can connect to that server's resources. In LAN Manager, this is not necessary because you can connect to a resource without first attaching to the server.
capture	net use lptx	Connects to a network printer. capture l=2 s=product q=laser1 net use lpt2 \\product\laser1
endcap	net use lptx /d	Ends a connection to a network printer. endcap l=2 net use lpt2 /d
help	net help	Displays Help information. help net help
login	net logon	Logs you on to the network. With NetWare, you usually must be switched to a network drive (such as Q) to log in; with LAN Manager, you can log on from the C drive. login net logon
logout	net logoff	Logs you off from the network. logout net logoff
map	net use x:	Connects to a network directory. map h: = product/sys net use h: \\product\sys
map del	net use x: /d	Deletes a connection to a network directory. map del h: net use h: /d
ncopy	net copy	Copies files from one location to another on a server, or from one network computer to another. ncopy memo.doc sales/sys:word net copy memo.doc \\sales\sys\word
nprint	net use lptx: net copy	Prints a file on a network printer. With LAN Manager, you must first use net use to connect to a printer (if you aren't already connected), and then use net copy to send the file to the printer. nprint memo.txt s=product p=1 net use lpt2 \\product\laser1 net copy memo.txt lpt2
pstat (NetWare 2.x only)	net print	Displays information about printers attached to a server. LAN Manager's net print command lists the jobs in each print queue; NetWare's pstat command does not. pstat s=product net print \\product
send	net send	Sends a message to another user. With Windows NT and LAN Manager, the message can usually have as many as 256 characters (depending on the value of sizmessbuf in the LANMAN.INI file). With NetWare, the message is limited to 45 characters. send "Meeting canceled" terryn net send terryn Meeting canceled
setpass	net password	Changes your password. setpass net password
slist	net view	Lists the servers on the network. With LAN Manager, it lists only the servers in your Windows NT Advanced Server or LAN Manager workstation domains (and the additional domains that your workstation is monitoring, if any). With NetWare, it lists all NetWare servers on the network. slist net view
slist server	net view \\server	Checks if a specific server is active on the network. With Windows NT and LAN Manager, it also lists resources that the server shares; with NetWare, it does not list resources. slist product net view \\product
systime	net time /set	Sets your workstation's time to match the time of the specified server. systime product net time \\product /set