Administrative Tools and Commands

NetWare has a variety of menu utilities for network administration, described in the following table:

Menu utility	Functions
syscon	Add and modify user accounts and groups, assign trustee rights (permissions) for resources, set the login scripts, and manage NetWare's resource-use accounting system.
filer	Manage shared directories and files.
fconsole	Monitor the use of the server, including checking who is using the server, checking statistics on server performance, and shutting down the server if necessary.
printdef	Define the properties of printers on the network.
printcon	Define print job configurations, which contain information about the printer and paper types to be used for a certain set of print jobs.
pconsole	Manage the printers and printer queues on a server.

To do almost all these tasks with LAN Manager, you use a single tool: the Net Admin interface, which is started from MS-DOS or OS/2 with the net admin command. If you are using Microsoft Windows, you can use NetAdmin, the Windows-based version of the Net Admin interface. The only exceptions are some of the printer settings, which involve other tools:

On a LAN Manager for OS/2 server, use the OS/2 Printer Installer and Print Manager when you define printers and create printer queues.
On a LAN Manager for UNIX Systems server, use the UNIX system administrative interface when you define printers.




	NOTE: One basic difference between NetWare and LAN Manager is the function of the ESC key in the administrative utilities. In a NetWare menu utility, if you type information into a dialog box and then press ESC, the information is saved. If you do the same thing in LAN Manager, the information is not saved. In a LAN Manager dialog box, you must press ENTER or choose the OK button or the Done button to save information you type.

Windows NT workstations and Advanced Servers cannot be managed from LAN Manager workstations. From a Windows NT Advanced Server or from a Windows NT workstation with the Resource Kit, you use a variety of tools from the Main and Administrative Tools group windows to manage the network:

Program	Network Administration Function
Main group:
File Manager	Manage files and directories, share files on the network and connect to shared directories on other computers.
Control Panel	Configure hardware devices and the network, and customize the fonts, color and desktop.
Print Manager	Connect to, configure and share printers, and control printing of documents.
Clipbook Viewer	Store clippings from data files and share that information over the network.
Administrative Tools group:
User Manager for Domains	Manage user accounts and groups, and define security policies and trust relationships. Windows NT uses the User Manager; Windows NT Advanced Server uses the User Manager for Domains.
User Profile Editor	Create customized user profiles containing Windows NT configuration information. (Not useful for LAN Manager workstations.)
Server Manager	Administer domains and computers.
Backup	Back up and restore files on a tape drive for NTFS, FAT, or HPFS file systems.
Event Viewer	View and manage event logs for system, security and application events.
Disk Administrator	View and manage hard disk partitions and other disk resources.
Performance Monitor	Measure CPU use and other data on systems performance.

With Windows NT, LAN Manager, and NetWare, most tasks can also be done using a command. The following table lists administrative commands and shows which commands perform equivalent functions in each system. (For a table showing users' equivalent commands, see the MS-DOS client documentation.) You can also see this table of equivalent commands online, using the net help netware command.

The table doesn't show the effects of every option of each command. For more information about the options of Windows NT Advanced Server commands, see the Windows NT manuals; for information about LAN Manager commands, see the LAN Manager administrative documentation; for information about NetWare command options, see your NetWare manual(s).

NetWare command

Windows NT command

LAN Manager command

Explanation and example

broadcast

net send /users

Sends a broadcast message to all users currently using the server. The NetWare command is a console command, meaning that it can be performed only by a supervisor working at the server itself; the Windows NT and LAN Manager command can be performed from a remote workstation as well.

broadcast The server PRODUCT will 
be shut down in 5 minutes
net send /users "The server PROD
UCT will be shut down in 5 minutes"

flag

attrib

attrib (OS/2) chmod (UNIX)

Sets the file attributes (or OS/2 file flags) of a file. Note that attrib and chmod are operating system commands.

flag data.txt ro 
 
attrib +r data.txt 
 
chmod a+r data.txt

grant

None (Use File Manager)

net access /add or net access / grant

Grants permissions (trustee rights) to users.

grant r for sys:public\data1992 to 
terryn 
 
net access c:\public\data1992 /
grant terryn:r

makeuser

net user

Creates, modifies, and deletes user accounts. Makeuser is actually a menu utility; NetWare has no command-line command to create user accounts.

makeuser 
 
net user /add terryn password

queue

None (Use Print Manager)

net print

Displays the jobs currently in a printer queue. Options of these commands also let you manage the jobs in a queue, deleting them, changing their printing order, or purging the entire queue. The NetWare command can be issued only from the server itself; the LAN Manager command has no such limitation.

queue laser1 jobs 
 
net print laser1

queue and printer

None (Use Print Manager)

net share

Creates a printer queue, assigns it to a printer, and makes it available to users. The NetWare command can be issued only from the server itself; the LAN Manager command has no such limitation.

queue laser1 create 
 
printer 1 add laser1 
 
net share laser1=lpt1

revoke

None (Use File Manager)

net access / revoke

Revokes a user's permissions (trustee rights) for a specified resource.

revoke all for sys:public\data1992 
from terryn 
 
net access c:\public\data1992 /re
voke terryn

tlist

None (Use File Manager)

net access

Displays the permissions (trustee rights) for a directory.

tlist sys:public\data1992 
 
net access c:\public\data1992

userlist

net session

Displays a list of users currently using the server.

userlist 
 
net session

None

Schedules a Windows NT, LAN Manager, or operating system command to be run at a later time; either once, daily, weekly, or monthly. Use this command to set up a time-consuming process to happen at night when no one is using the server, or to be sure that regular maintenance commands are always done at the right times.

at 23:00 /every:f archive

None

None (Use User Manager [for Domains])

net accounts

*Sets the server's security settings, which control how many characters users' passwords must have and how often users must change their passwords. For more information, see "User Accounts," later in this appendix.

net accounts /minpwlen:8

None

net run

Runs a program remotely on the server while you are working at a workstation. You can use this command from a workstation to run large programs on the server, taking advantage of the server's more powerful processor. Using this command also improves performance of applications that use data stored on the server—the data the program uses doesn't need to be moved to the workstation.

net run sort

None

None (Use File and Print Manager)

net share

Makes a server resource available to network users. The resource can be a directory (and its subdirectories and files), a printer queue, or a comm queue. (Windows NT and LAN Manager for UNIX Systems do not support comm queues.)

net share data1992=c:\year1992

None

net statistics

*Displays performance statistics for a server or workstation. With NetWare, you can view statistics only from the fconsole menu utility. With LAN Manager, you can use either the net statistics command or the Net Admin interface.

net statistics server

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