NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: NetWare Lite 1.1 German DOCUMENT ID: TID015133 DOCUMENT REVISION: A DATE: 01MAR94 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Symptom Solution README FOR: L11G01.EXE NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: NetWare Lite 1.1 for DOS & Windows ABSTRACT: This file contains German patches for NetWare Lite 1.1. It contains the following files: RECONFIX, CLPRINTR, GETATRIB, CLOSEFIL, LPTSTAT, VXDFIX, INT28FIX, VIDEOFIX, DOS6CDS, WINPOPUP, RENFIX and INT17FIX. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 SYMPTOM When running the Quicken finance software and printing to a NetWare Lite captured printer, Quicken printing fails with the following message: MESSAGE Can't print to LPT1 CAUSE A bug in CLIENT.EXE caused the problem. SYMPTOM File attributes are being received across the network. CAUSE A problem with OPENDEV.PAT caused the symptom. SYMPTOM When a client station has open files on a NetWare Lite server and the client reboots with the files still open, sometimes the files will not be closed when the client reconnects or when watchdog clears the station connection. CAUSE A bug in SERVER.EXE caused the problem. SYMPTOM NetWare Lite print jobs are being lost when the printer has been turned off or taken offline. CAUSE A bug in SERVER.EXE caused the problem. SYMPTOM When using the NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands as the first commands from a client to a server that has just been rebooted, the following messages will be displayed and the command will fail: MESSAGE Redirect device -- Too many open files. or MESSAGE Write file -- Access denied. CAUSE A bug in CLIENT.EXE causes the reconnection between server and client to fail when the NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands are issued by a client to a server that has just been rebooted. Subsequent NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands from the client station will work normally. SYMPTOM Printer output that has been captured through NetWare Lite is corrupted. CAUSE A bug in CLIENT.EXE caused certain applications run on a client/server with a local printer to produce printer output that has been corrupted. SYMPTOM The NetWare Lite server appears to hang when loading applications in Window's startup box. CAUSE When automatically loading applications with Windows 3.1 and running NetWare Lite, a bug in SERVER.EXE caused the server to not respond until some of the automatically loaded applications were closed. SYMPTOM When running an application that performs background printing on a server/client with a printer connected locally, the station locks. Some applications that exhibit this problem (not limited to) are Foxpro, Mas90, Clipper, WordPerfect, PeachTree, Timeslip, Microfocus Cobol, and Red Wing. CAUSE A bug in CLIENT.EXE caused applications doing background printing on a NetWare Lite server/client where printing is captured to a printer connected locally to experience a server lock up sometimes. The problem requires the station to be rebooted. Each time the station is rebooted because of this problem, lost clusters are left on the hard disk. If this happens enough times without running "chkdsk /f" the FAT table will become corrupted. SYMPTOM When using IBM ValuePoint models 425sx or 433dx and pressing the + keys to reboot the server or when a popup printer status screen is being displayed, the video screen switches to 40 column mode. CAUSE A bug in SERVER.EXE caused the monitor to switch to the 40 column mode. SYMPTOM Print jobs sent to an offline printer will hang Windows if Windows is running in a super VGA mode, such as 8514. CAUSE NetWare Lite uses a popup message box to indicate the status of the printer. A bug in SERVER.EXE causes the popup message box to hang Windows. SYMPTOM With the DoubleSpace device driver, nonexistent drives get set to valid physical drives after running the NET utility. CAUSE MS-DOS 6.00 changed the way the pointer to the Drive Parameter Block (DPB) is used in the Current Directory Structure (CDS). CLIENT.EXE was setting a drive status to "valid physical drive" after using the drive as a network drive. SYMPTOM The DOS rename file command fails on a NetWare Lite mapped drive with the following message: MESSAGE PATH NOT FOUND CAUSE The file is located at the root directory. CAUSE The rename command uses a DOS wildcard character as shown in the following example: rename docfile.doc *.sav SYMPTOM When printing under NetWare Lite, applications may experience corruption on their print job under the following conditions: Applications making calls to the BIOS interrupt 17 function 0 to send characters to be printed under NetWare Lite, The application makes repeated calls to interrupt 17 function 0 to send the same character to the printer without reinitializing the character to be printed in register AL. CAUSE The problem is caused because the NetWare Lite client interrupt 17 ISR failed to preserve the contents of AL. SOLUTION Apply the patch files included in the L11G01.EXE file. (Before applying files in the FIELDTST subdirectory, read FIELDTST.TXT.) ************************************************************ Informationen 쉇er Bestimmte Fehlerkorrekturdateien (German) ************************************************************ Self-Extracting File Name: L11G01.EXE Revision: A Files Included Size Date Time \ L11G01.TXT (This File) RENFIX.PAT 1469 02-14-94 12:01p VXDFIX.PAT 1409 04-30-93 9:39a DOS6CDS.PAT 1456 02-14-94 3:58p LPTSTAT.PAT 1277 02-03-93 9:35a CLOSEFIL.PAT 1098 02-03-93 10:29a CLPRINTR.PAT 1221 11-17-92 2:47p GETATRIB.PAT 1271 01-27-93 5:43p INT17FIX.PAT 1077 02-14-94 3:03p INT28FIX.PAT 1590 06-11-93 11:22a RECONFIX.PAT 2643 02-01-93 2:52p VIDEOFIX.PAT 1201 02-03-93 9:54a WINPOPUP.PAT 1314 02-11-94 11:41a \FIELDTST\ WNET.EXE 504832 10-29-93 11:20a NLPLIB.DLL 58480 01-05-93 1:59p TCSFIX.PAT 1073 08-06-93 1:09p WNETRES.DLL 24576 10-29-93 3:30p FIELDTST.TXT 3177 02-25-94 10:03a STACKFIX.PAT 973 03-30-93 10:17a *********************************************************** Installation Instructions: *********************** GERMAN **************************** Readme f걊 L11G01.EXE *********************************************************** BEGRIFFE Fehlerkorrekturdatei: Eine Datei, die die Erweiterung .PAT aufweist und die an einem Programm vorgenommenen 럑derungen definiert. Zieldatei: Eine Datei, die die Erweiterung .EXE aufweist und mit Hilfe einer Fehlerkorrekturdatei modifiziert wird. UPATCH: Universal Update Program (Universales Aktualisierungsprogramm), ein Programm, das die Zieldateien korrigiert. Hinweis: UPATCH.EXE wird mit NetWare Lite 1.1 und mit dem Fehlerkorrektursatz von Lite 1.1 geliefert. *********************************************************** ALLGEMEINES Es ist nur eine einzige Diskette erforderlich, um alle im Netzwerk vorhandenen Kopien des Programms NetWare Lite zu korrigieren. Sie ben봳igen nicht eine Diskette f걊 jede einzelne Kopie des Programms NetWare Lite. Vor Ausf갿rung des Programms UPATCH sollten Sicherungskopien der Dateien angelegt werden. Nehmen Sie keine Fehlerkorrekturen in den Programm- und Treiberdateien auf den Originaldisketten von NetWare Lite vor. Wenn das Programm NetWare Lite auf der Festplatte eines Rechners installiert ist, befinden sich die zu korrigierenden Dateien im Verzeichnis C:\NWLITE. Wenn ein Rechner nicht 갶er eine eigene Festplatte verf갾t, befinden sich die zu korrigierenden Dateien auf der Diskette in der Arbeitsstation, die NetWare Lite Datei CLIENT.EXE enth꼕t. Nehmen Sie die Fehlerkorrekturen in allen im Netzwerk befindlichen Kopien von NetWare Lite (alle Server und Clienten) mit Hilfe des Programms UPATCH vor, um eine einheitliche Funktionsweise des Netzwerks zu gew꼑rleisten. Falls eine in einem Server oder Clienten vorhandene Programmkopie nicht korrigiert wird, wird diese weiterhin das unberechenbare Verhalten aufweisen, das die Fehlerkorrekturdatei verbessern soll. Lesen Sie sich den Abschnitt des vorliegenden Dokuments, der sich auf die jeweilige Fehlerkorrekturdatei bezieht, um ihre Funktion kennenzulernen. Die einzelnen Abschnitte erl꼞tern den Anwendungsbereich, das Datum, die Pr갽summen und den Wirkungsbereich der Fehlerkorrektur sowie die Symptome des jeweils vor der Fehlerkorrektur aufgetretenen Problems. Die Fehlerkorrekturdateien k봭nen mit Hilfe des Programms UPATCH vor oder nach Ausf갿rung von NetWare Lite angewendet werden, jedoch werden die 럑derungen nur nach Neustart des Computers und Laden der korrigierten Dateien im Speicher wirksam. *********************************************************** ANLEITUNG ZU UPATCH Um die Fehlerkorrektur eines SERVER- und/oder CLIENT-Programms auf Festplatte vorzunehmen, 1. Kopieren Sie die .PAT-Datei(en) in das Verzeichnis NWLITE im Laufwerk C. 2. Um die Fehlerkorrekturdatei auf die entsprechende Zieldatei anzuwenden, geben Sie "UPATCH" ein und dr갷ken Sie . 3. Starten Sie den Computer erneut, wenn die DOS-Eingabeaufforderung erscheint. Die korrigierten Dateien werden verwendet, wenn sie in den Speicher geladen werden. Um die Fehlerkorrektur in einem CLIENT-Programm auf einer Arbeitsstation vorzunehmen, die Disketten verwendet, 1. Legen Sie die Unterst걎zungsdiskette in das Laufwerk A: ein (wobei die Diskette die dem jeweiligen Problem entsprechende .PAT-Datei(en) enthalten mu�) und f갿ren Sie UPATCH.EXE aus. 2. Legen Sie die Arbeitsstationsdiskette, die die Datei CLIENT.EXE enth꼕t, in das Laufwerk B: ein. Nehmen Sie die Fehlerkorrekturen nicht auf den Originaldisketten von NetWare Lite vor. 3. Geben Sie "A:" an der DOS-Eingabeaufforderung ein und dr갷ken Sie . 4. Geben Sie "UPATCH B:CLIENT.EXE" ein, dr갷ken Sie und befolgen Sie die Bildschirmanweisungen. HINWEIS: Die Fehlerkorrektur wird auf die Datei CLIENT.EXE angewendet und die unver꼗derte Datei wird mit der Erweiterung .OLD gespeichert. Bei Bedarf kann die Version .OLD umbenannt und ausgef갿rt werden. 5. Starten Sie den Computer erneut, wenn die DOS-Eingabeaufforderung erscheint. Die korrigierten Dateien werden verwendet, wenn sie in den Speicher geladen werden. *********************************************************** Um die neuesten Informationen 갶er NetWare Lite Fehlerkorrekturdateien, deren Anwendungs- und Hardware-Kompatibilit�t, erweiterte und aktualisierte Versionen, die ersten zehn Unterst걎zungsthemen sowie NetWare Lite Produktinformationen, usw. zu erfahren: * Kunden aus den USA und Kanada haben die M봥lichkeit, das automatisierte 24-Stunden-Faxservice von Novell anzurufen. W꼑len Sie zu diesem Zweck die geb갿renfreie Rufnummer (800) NETWARE [(800) 638-9273] und dr갷ken Sie die Sterntaste (*) nachdem sich der automatische Anrufbeantworter meldet. * Internationale Kunden haben die M봥lichkeit, Compuserve unter der Rufnummer (1) 614-457-0802 anzurufen. Als CompuServe-Teilnehmer geben Sie nur GO NOVLIB ein und w꼑len Sie die Option "Library 10," um auf diese Informationen zuzugreifen. ************************************************************* Solution Specifics: ************************************************************* GETATRIB.PAT - NetWare Lite Client get file attribute fix patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Problem: Running the Quicken finance software and printing to a NetWare Lite captured printer, Quicken printing fails with the "Can't print to LPT1" message. Symptoms: Quicken printing fails with the message "Can't print to LPT1." This also fixes the problem with getting file attributes across the network. The problem was with OPENDEV.PAT. ************************************************************* CLOSEFIL.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 Server close file handles fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Problem: When a client station has open files on a NetWare Lite server and the client reboots with the files still open, sometimes the files will not be closed when the client reconnects or when watchdog clears the station connection. Symptoms: Files are left open on the server when a client reboots. ************************************************************* LPTSTAT.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 Server LPT printer status fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Problem: Print jobs in NetWare Lite are being sent to a printer that has been taken off line or powered off. The jobs are being lost. Symptoms: Print jobs are being lost when the printer has been powered off or taken off line. ************************************************************* RECONFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client reconnect patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Problem: The reconnection between server and client fails to occur when the NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands are issued by a client to a server that has just been rebooted. Subsequent NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands from the client station will work normally. Symptoms: When using the NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands as the first commands from a client to a server that has just been rebooted, the error messages "Redirect device -- Too many open files." or "Write file -- Access denied." will be displayed and the command will fail. ************************************************************* CLPRINTR.PAT - NetWare Lite Client printer corruption fix patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Problem: Running certain applications on a client/server with a local printer will produce printer output that has been corrupted. Symptoms: Printer output that has been captured through NetWare Lite will be corrupted. ************************************************************* VXDFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 Server windows VXDFIX patch version 2.0. Target: SERVER.EXE Problem: When automatically-loading applications with Windows 3.1 and running NetWare Lite, the server will not respond until some of the automatically-loaded applications are closed. Symptoms: The NetWare Lite server will appear to hang when loading applications in Windows startup box. ************************************************************* INT28FIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client int 28 ISR patch version 2.0 Target: CLIENT.EXE Problem: Applications doing background printing on a NetWare Lite server/client where printing is captured to a printer connected locally may experience a server lock up. The problem requires the station to be rebooted. Each time the station is rebooted because of this problem, lost clusters are left on the hard disk. If this happens enough times without running "chkdsk /f" the FAT table will become corrupted. Symptoms: You may have this problem if you are having problems running an application that performs background printing on a server/client with a printer connected locally and the station locks. Applications that exhibits this problem but not limited to are FoxPro, Mas90, Clipper, WordPerfect, Peachtree, Timeslip, Microfocus Cobol and Red Wing. ************************************************************* VIDEOFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 Server video popup window fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Problem: When using the IBM Valuepoint models 425sx or 433dx, pressing the + keys to reboot the server or when a popup printer status screen is being displayed, the monitor will switch to 40 column mode. Symptoms: The video screen switches to 40 column mode when using IBM Valuepoint models 425sx or 433dx. ************************************************************* DOS6CDS.PAT - NetWare Lite Client MS DOS 6.0 Current Directory Structure (CDS) patch, German version. File: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 470, 47E, 5FE, 367, 580, 240, 47E, 5FE Problem: MS-DOS 6.00 changed the way the pointer to the Drive Parameter Block (DPB) is used in the Current Directory Structure (CDS). The Client was setting a drive status to "valid physical drive" after using the drive as a network drive. Symptoms: With the DoubleSpace device driver, nonexistent drives get set to valid physical drives after running the NET utility. *********************************************************** RENFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 German Server rename file fix patch. File: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 3CA, 512, A31, 2C7, 387, 215, 332, A31 Problem: When using the DOS rename file command to rename a file on a NetWare Lite mapped drive, the following conditions will cause the rename to fail with the message "PATH NOT FOUND": 1. The file must be located at the root directory. 2. The rename command must use a DOS wildcard character. Example: rename docfile.doc *.sav Symptoms: The DOS rename file command fails on a NetWare Lite drive with the message "PATH NOT FOUND." *********************************************************** INT17FIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client int 17 ISR patch, German version. File: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 61F, 323, 4F4, 13A, 323 Problem: Applications making calls to the BIOS interrupt 17 function 0 to send characters to be printed under NetWare Lite may experience character loss on the print job. The character loss happens when the application makes repeated calls to interrupt 17 function 0 to send the same character to the printer without reinitializing the character to be printed in register AL. The problem is caused because the NetWare Lite client interrupt 17 ISR failed to preserve the contents of AL. Symptoms: When printing under NetWare Lite, applications may experience corruption on their print job under the conditions described above. *********************************************************** WINPOPUP.PAT - NetWare Lite 1.1 Server Windows LPT printer status fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Problem: Using Windows with a super VGA driver causes Windows to hang when sending a print job to a printer that has been taken offline. NetWare Lite uses a popup message box to indicate the status of the printer. The popup message box causes Windows to hang. Symptoms: Print jobs sent to an offline printer will hang Windows, if Windows is running in a super VGA mode such as 8514. �