TITLE: Update for NetWare Lite 1.1 DOCUMENT ID: TID013869 DOCUMENT REVISION: 2 DATE: 24Nov93 ALERT STATUS: Yellow README FOR: NA NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: NETWARE LITE V1.1 ABSTRACT: NA --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEAN 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS: #1: When running the Quicken finance software and printing to a NetWare Lite captured printer, Quicken printing fails with the following message: "Can't print to LPT1" #2: Problems getting file attributes across the network. #3: 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. #4: NetWare Lite print jobs are being lost when the printer has been turned off or taken offline. #5: 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: "Redirect device -- Too many open files." or "Write file -- Access denied." Subsequent NET CAPTURE or NET PRINT commands from the client station will work normally. #6: Certain applications running on a client/server with a local printer produces print jobs containing corruption. #7: The NetWare Lite server appears to hang when loading applications in Window's startup box. #8: 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. #9: 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. #10: Print jobs sent to an offline printer will hang Windows, if Windows is running in a superVGA mode such as 8514. #11: With the DoubleSpace device driver, nonexistant drives get set to valid physical drives after running the NET utility. #12: Using the DOS command "rename" with a DOS wildcard (i.e. rename docfile.doc *.sav) on a file located at the root directory will result in the following error message: "PATH NOT FOUND" #13: 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; or, 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. CAUSES: 1. A problem in CLIENT.EXE. 2. A problem with OPENDEV.PAT. #3: A problem in SERVER.EXE. #4: A problem in SERVER.EXE. #5: A problem in CLIENT.EXE. #6: A problem in CLIENT.EXE. #7: When automatically loading applications with Windows 3.1 (applications in the Startup Group) and running NetWare Lite, a problem in SERVER.EXE caused the server to not respond until some of the automatically loaded applications were closed. #8: A problem 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 drive. If this happens enough times without running "chkdsk /f" the FAT table will become corrupted. #9: A problem in SERVER.EXE caused the monitor to switch to the 40 column mode. #10: NetWare Lite uses a popup message box to indicate the status of the printer. A problem in SERVER.EXE causes the popup message box to hang Windows. #11: 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. #12: A problem in SERVER.EXE. #13: The NetWare Lite client interrupt 17 ISR failed to preserve the contents of AL. SOLUTIONS: 1. GETATRIB.PAT - NetWare lite Client get file attribute fix patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 758, BB2, 59A, 351, BB2 2. Same as number 1 above. #3: CLOSEFIL.PAT - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server close file handles fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 2CC, 2B4, 20 #4: LPTSTAT.PA - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server LPT printer status fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 5B7, CO1, 575, 307, C01 #5: RECONFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client reconnect patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 76A, 74F, 10EF, 66A, 64F, 8F7, 3A3, 3A3, 10EF #6: CLPRINTR.PAT - NetWare Lite Client printer corruption fix patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 6AC, 562, 5D4, 316, 562 #7: VXDFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server windows VxD fix patch version 2.0. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 5F0, 605, EF #8: INT28FIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client int 28 ISR patch version 2.0 Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 765, 8A4, 58D, 641, 4DE, 28C, F1, 8A4 #9: VIDEOFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server video popup window fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 63E, 4A1, 6AE, 4C5, 4A1 #10: WINPOPUP.PAT - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server Windows LPT printer status fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 4D6, 8EF, 23C, 402, 8EF #11: DOS6CDS.PAT - NetWare Lite Client MS-DOS 6.0 Current Directory Structure (CDS) patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 470, 494, 5D2, 367, 580, 240, 494, 5D2 #12: RENFIX.PAT - NetWare Lite v1.1 Server rename file fix patch. Target: SERVER.EXE Checksums: 4E6, 54C, A14, 3A9, 36A, 24F, 36C, A14 #13: INT17FIX.PAT - NetWare Lite Client int 17 ISR patch. Target: CLIENT.EXE Checksums: 630, 312, 4F4, 14B, 312 ********************************************************************* Please update all your NetWare Lite network stations with the all the patches in this file. ********************************************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- Any trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Consult your product manuals for complete trademark information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------