Novell SERVER CONSOLIDATION MIGRATION TOOLKIT 1.1 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 12-23-2005 Administration Manual page 86

Table of Contents

Advertisement

86
Novell Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit Administration Guide
• If your source server is NetWare 4, make sure that you have IPX
your client. For information on verifying IPX on your client, see
6.11.3, "Verifying IPX Is Bound on the Client," on page
• Add a mapped drive to the source server.
• Ensure that SLP is configured properly on the servers involved in the
consolidation project.
Problem: NetWare 6.5 won't communicate with NetWare 4 during a consolidation. IPX
was not installed during the NetWare 6.5 installation.
Action: Add IPX to the NetWare 6.5 server after the NetWare 6.5 installation is
complete.
1 Enter edit sys:system/autoexec.ncf at the NetWare 6.5 server
console.
2 Add the server ID of the source server and save the autoexec.ncf file.
Problem: IPX connection is not communicating.
Action: Ensure that there is an IPX connection to the server.
To verify that the source and destination servers can see each other via IPX:
1 On the server console of the destination server, enter serverid
xxxxx, where xxxxx is the unique server ID number for the server.
2 Enter load ipxping.
3 Enter the internal IPX number of the source server.
4 Repeat this process on the source server, replacing the internal IPX
number of the source server with the destination server's internal IPX
number in
Action: Bind IPX on the destination server.
1 At the destination server console, enter inetcfg.
2 Select Boards and press Enter.
3 Press the Insert key.
4 Select the appropriate network interface and press Enter.
5 Enter a board name and slot number, then press the Esc key.
6 Select Yes to save changes and press Enter.
7 Press the Esc key to return to the main Internetworking Configuration
screen.
8 Select Protocols and press Enter.
9 Select IPX and press Enter.
10 Enable and configure IPX and exit the inetcfg utility.
TIP: If you prefer, IPX can also be enabled on the server by adding the
appropriate Load and Bind commands to the server's autoexec.ncf file.
Action: Verify that IPX is bound on the client running the Server Consolidation Utility:
1 Right-click the red N in the system tray on your workstation.
Step
3.
on
TM
Section
60.

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

This manual is also suitable for:

Server consolidation and migration toolkit 1.1

Table of Contents