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Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:36:15 PDT7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"SoCal OS/2 User Group" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Need Netware requester setup help

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This is a request for assistance on a problem re-connecting my old Pentium 2
computer to my Netware server. I want to get it re-connected to the server.
Now that the ide problem on my new AMD seems to be resolved, I need to get
this working so I can also attach the AMD to the server.

Background information (no specifics this post)........

This is the old "req0815" message at bootup time.

The server is an old reliable PS/2, attached to a BEFSR41 LinkSys 4-port
router. There is also a dsl modem and 2 computers (not including my new AMD)
attached to the router. Both computers use Warp4 and can access the internet
via the dsl modem, and the PS/2 connects to the Netware server, so there's
probably a 100% certainty the problem is not hardware.

The P2 used to connect fine. The other computer (an old PS/2 mod95) is
physically attached, but it had the "req0815" problem when I first installed
it and I never tried to solve that problem until recently. Recently I did
get it connected by massaging the config.sys entries.

But I've been unsuccessful getting the P2 re-connected. Much as I've played
with configurators and config.sys statements and files (and I've spent more
days than I want to admit, working on it), I can't get it to connect.

I have had this Netware 3.12 (4-user) server for a long time, and have now
forgotten most of what I knew about it. I only run it sporadically, and have
never had more than 1 requester computer attached to it at a time. Last time
I definitely remember having the server fired up with the P2 talking to it
was in late January. I am not certain what I did in the interim that
disrupted the connection, but I have made a number of changes on that
machine. New display adapter, additional hard drive, tried to update tcpip
to a 64-bit stack (and since regressed), dani drivers, made a failed attempt
to use Java 1.4, installed several releases of Mozilla, etc, etc, etc. It's
probable that I messed something up.

Anyway, the P2-to-server connection used to work, now it gives me the
"req0815" message. I have always seemed to have trouble just using the IBM
tools: Mpts services configurator and tcpcfg. Seemed like I always had to
modify their output a bit.

I have the configurator set up with the IBM PCI Ethernet NIC and protocols:
Netware Requester
802.2
tcp/ip

The NIC is an IBM PCI Ethernet card on the P2.

I am not a trained or experienced network guy, but I am somewhat familiar
with the configurator output files, having looked at them often during past
problems:

net.cfg
protocol.ini
setup.cmd
tcpstart.cmd
mptstart.cmd

Have I left any configuration files out?

I've compared the configurator entries between the two machines and they
look the same to me (just different NIC's and hostnames).

The two requestor systems (P2 and PS/2) are so similar that I've even tried
to copy the configurator output files from the working PS/2 to the P2 and
make appropriate changes for the different NIC type, NIC address, and
hostname statement. No luck.

Both machines seem to be able to access the internet simultaneously
(although I don't do that much on the mod95, since it's very slow and has a
small display and a klutzy mouse).

I'll be glad to provide detail, and I could sure use some new
troubleshooting ideas!

Anybody up for this challenge?

Wayne

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