Adding TCP/IP

[ctiowa]

Let me start off by saying I am not a Novell guy < Thats my idiot disclaimer !

Anyway, I have a customer than has a Novell Server running IPX. They have a new program that runs on one of their client machines that needs to use TCP/IP to talk to the database thats on the server.

The server does not have access to the internet and the TCP/IP is only used for this one function on the client to connect to server.

Need some direction on how to add the TCP/IP protocol to the server.

Thanks in advance,
Rich

 

[marvhuffaker]

INETCFG.NLM. Pretty straightforward process, just follow the menus.

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[ctiowa]

Thank you Marvin.

So just type INETCFG.NLM at the prompt and go from there?

I am assuming it will give me option to setup IP and subnet from there?

Thanks again

Rich

 

[sstoppel]

Load INETCFG, (may require a reboot if it wasn't used before), go to Protocols, TCP/IP, make sure it is enabled. Configure LAN Static Routing, add default route. Configure DNS Resolver, Go to Bindings, press INS key, configure IP address.

I wouldn't be surprised if you then have to install mysql or some other database back end.

 

[ctiowa]

The database is on there and functioning. Its a server for book records at a small public library. The clients connect to the server now with IPX and that has been working for years. They bought an option to allow the community to connect to this database. It required adding another machine with a webserver on it. Its all windows. This machine is up and running and I can connect to it from the outside fine. But the link is missing to the database server (the one I want to add TCP too). This requires TCP/IP because the software vendor has not been able to make IPX work yet. Seems odd...

Anway, I just need to get TCP/IP going on this server so I can specify an IP address to point to from the new machine.

Thanks for help

Rich

 

[ctiowa]

I just ran INETCFG and it shows I have the tcp/ip protocol and its already enabled. Shows an IP of 10.0.1.2.

But its not working. I am on the same network with this PC and have did an IPconfig and am on the same subnet. But I cant ping the server IP.

I just added LOAD tcpip to the exec file and am rebooting.

Anything else I should look for?

Thank you !

Rich

 

[TheLad]

If you are using ITNETCFG, you don't need to add TCPIP into the AUTOEXEC.NCF, however the AUTOEXEC.NCF does have to have the command SYS:ETC\INITSYS.NCF which executes the configuration made in ITNETCFG.

If the IP Address is configured, check that the correct subnet mask and default gateway are configured on the server. You will need to reinitialize or reboot the server for changes to take effect.

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[terry712]

and remeber it's not windows
reboot every 2 or 3 years

can you not just get rid of the ipx and move pure to ip

 

[marvhuffaker]

A good way to check TCP on the server-- At the console:

CONFIG

This will tell you the protocols that are bound the the network card.

Antoher thing you can do to test whether the IP stack is working:

PING 127.0.0.1

You should get responses, that is the internal loopback. If it works, IP is generally working. If it fails, your configuration is corrupt or incomplete.

 

[ctiowa]

I tried the loopback and it worked but my lack of ping issue turned out to be the wireless router my notebook (pinging device) was connected to. Once I got connected with cable, all was good.

Thanks all !