HP Vectra VL6 7 Service manual

Network
Administrator Guide
Online Guide
Rev. 5.0
Date: 8/97

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Contents
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How to use this online guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Associated Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1 Setting Up the Network Connection
Setting Up the Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring the HP Ethernet Family Adapter in SETUP . . . . . . 11
Using SETUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Controlling the Network Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Controlling the Remote Power Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Network Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Driver Installation - LAN Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The LAN Activity Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Tips for Setting Up the HP Ethernet Family Adapter . . . . . . . . . 15
Troubleshooting and Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Running HPIEDIAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
What You Can Do With HPIEDIAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Getting Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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2 Installing Novell NetWare Drivers
Installing Novell NetWare Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ODI DOS Client Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ODI Driver with DOS Requester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ODI Driver with DOS Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Starting a NetWare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
ODI OS/2 Client Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ODI Driver for Windows for Workgroups Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Windows for Workgroups OEM Information Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Parallel Transferring ODI DOS Client Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Parallel Transferring ODI Driver with DOS Requester . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Parallel Transferring ODI Driver with DOS Shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting a Parallel Transferring NetWare Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
NET.CFG Options for Novell NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Sample NET.CFG File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3 Installing Microsoft Network Drivers
Installing Microsoft Network Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Network Driver Interface Specifications (NDIS). . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
LAN Manager 2.x DOS and OS/2 Client Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
NDIS 2.01 Driver for Windows for Workgroups 3.1. . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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NDIS 2.01 and 3.0 Drivers for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 . . 50
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
NDIS 3.0 Driver for Windows NT 3.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Miniport Driver for Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing Miniport Driver for Windows NT 3.51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing Miniport Driver for Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
NDIS 2.01 and 3.1 for Windows 95. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4 Installing Other Network Drivers
Installing Other Network Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
NDIS 2.01 Driver for Artisoft LANtastic 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
NDIS 2.01 Driver for Banyan VINES Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
NDIS 2.01 Driver with DEC PATHWORKS 5.0 Client. . . . . . . . . . 64
NDIS 2.01 Driver with FTP PC/TCP 2.x for DOS/Windows. . . . . 65
NDIS 2.01 Driver for IBM LAN Services 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
NDIS 2.01 Driver with IBM Warp Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
NDIS 2.01 Driver for PC-NFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
NDIS 2.01 Driver with Other Networking Products. . . . . . . . . . . 73

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5 Configuring for Remote Boot
Configuring for Remote Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Setting Up a Novell NetWare 3.x and 4.x Server for Remote Start 79
How to Create a Boot Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Remote Program Load on NetWare 3.x and 4.x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Remote Boot on Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Remote Boot under Windows NT Server 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
DHCP/TFTP Boot under Windows NT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
6 Driver Options - Software Keywords
PCNET Driver-Specific Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Common Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Operating System Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Novell NetWare DOS & OS/2 ODI Client Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
NDIS 2.01 Driver Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
NDIS 3.x Driver Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Artisoft LANtastic Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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Setting Up the Network Connection

1 Setting Up the Network Connection
Setting Up the Network Connection
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Setting Up the Network Connection
This section describes the procedure to make a LAN Disk using either the Windows-
based HP Master Diskette Creation utility or MS-DOS.
To setup the network connection:
•connect the LAN cable to the PC as described in the User's Guide supplied with
your PC.
•check the configuration of the interface before installing the LAN drivers.
NOTE HP LAN drivers are supported on Vectra PCs only. This does not apply to drivers for
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 95.