Connecting to server using IPX from DOS

[Guest]

I need to boot a floppy running DOS7 and connect to a Windows server using
the IPX protocol because the tcp/ip drivers take up too much memory and other
programs will not run. I have installed the NWLINK IPX protocol on the
server and the boot disk loads the ipx nic drivers OK. It fails at the end
with the error that it cannot find a server. I need to get this going today
if at all possible.

Please help.
Thanks
Evan Hicks

 

[John John]

See if anything here can help:

HOW TO: Install and Configure the NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS-Compatible
Transport Protocol in Windows 2000 Server
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316019

John

 

[Guest]

Sorry, it did not help. The article explained how to install the ipx
protocol on a server. Got that done already. The problem now is connecting
to that server from a DOS boot diskette.

Thansk for your quick reply,
Evan

 

[John John]

Bart's Network Boot Disk
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

John

 

[Phillip Windell]

The place John suggested is a good place to look. Remember that IPX uses a
"Network Number" and it may not autonegociate dependably, so you may have to
statically enter one on both the Server and in the DOS Startup files so that
they agree (same with any other machine that gets involved).

The Network Number is arbitrary for the most part (you just make it up). But
one standard practice is to use the network portion of your IP# with the
dots removed.
Example:
TCP/IP network is: 192.168.5.0/24
IPX/SPX network number can be: 1921685
This makes it clean, consistant, and easy to remember.

I have often had to force the number statically this way with some of the
older IPX/SPX games to play them on a LAN (like Westwood's Command &
Conquer, Red Alert, etc.).