TITLE:              Assisting Floppy Based Clients
DOCUMENT ID:        TID1200469
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               31MAR95
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NETWARE LITE V1.1

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ISSUE:

ASSISTING FLOPPY BASED CLIENTS

If there are workstations on the network that do not have hard disks,
Novell suggests that NetWork Directories be set up to help those
workstations. A DOS shared Network Directory should be created so
that workstations with no hard disks can load DOS commands from the
network. A Network Directory sharing IBM DOS v3.10 (named IBM_DOS_310
perhaps) would be useful for those CLIENTs with only floppy drives to
get to their version of DOS. In conjunction with this, the DOS
environment variable COMSPEC should be set to allow you to load
COMMAND.COM from across the network.

For example, the following lines could be included in an AUTOEXEC.BAT
or STARTNET.BAT file:

     NET MAP F: IBM_DOS_310
     SET COMSPEC=F:\COMMAND.COM

In addition, workstations that only have floppy drives can be
assisted by creating a Network Directory where the NetWare Lite
utility (NET.EXE, NET.OVL, NET.HLP and LITE$RUN.OVL) can be loaded;
instead of always loading them from the floppy. Novell suggests that
a Network Directory called NWLITE be created. This directory should
be a SERVERs C:\NWLITE  directory. Novell also suggests that this
Network Directory be given default rights of READ and not the default
of ALL.

All floppy-only CLIENTs should map a drive to this resource and add
the drive to their DOS path. This will allow the loading of the NET
utility from across the network, which is a much better solution than
loading from floppy.

For example, the following lines could be included in an AUTOEXEC.BAT
or STARTNET.BAT file:

     NET MAP M: NWLITE
     PATH=M:.;%PATH%

If you want to run the CLIENT from a floppy drive and have that
diskette be the boot diskette, the following configuration is
suggested. (Where ever NE2000.COM appears, replace it with the
appropriate driver name you are using. Also, the drive letters L: and
M: are simply used as examples; you may use any other valid driver
letters. Drive M: is mapped to the Network Directory NWLITE as
described above. Similarly, Drive L: is mapped to the Network
Directory IBM_DOS_310 as described above.)

1.  Create a bootable diskette using the FORMAT A: /S command.

2.  Copy the following NetWare Lite files to the diskette:

     LSL.COM
     NE2000.COM
     IPXODI.COM
     CLIENT.EXE
     NET.EXE
     NET.CFG

3.  Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following lines added to it:

     LSL
     NE2000
     IPXODI A
     CLIENT
     NET LOGIN
     NET MAP L: IBM_DOS_310
     NET MAP M: NWLITE
     PATH=L:\;M:\;%PATH%
     SET COMSPEC=L:\COMMAND.COM

4.  Create an CONFIG.SYS with the following line added to it:

     LASTDRIVE=M

For those Network Directories that contain applications
(executables), the drives used to map to these applications should be
included in the DOS environment variable PATH. For example, the
following lines could also be included in an AUTOEXEC.BAT or
STARTNET.BAT file:

     NET MAP G: TURBOC
     NET MAP H: WORDPERFECT
     NET MAP I: GAMES
     SET PATH=G:\BIN;H:.;I:\TETRIS;%PATH

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