Chapter 8. Configuring The Network Station From The Ns Boot Utility; Identifying The Ns Boot Version; Manually Updating The Ns Boot Code - IBM 8364 E series User Manual

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Chapter 8. Configuring the Network Station from the NS

Boot utility

This chapter contains information about using the NS Boot utility of the IBM

Network Station thin client (hereafter referred to as the Network Station). The

NS Boot utility menu allows you to View or Set configuration settings for a

particular Network Station. The primary function of the NS Boot utility is to

communicate with network servers, and download the IBM Network Station

Manager program.

You can find and correct Network Station configuration issues that affect how

the Network Station accesses a network in the NS Boot utility. You can use the

IBM Network Station Manager program to restrict user privileges in the NS

Boot utility.

You can distinguish the NS Boot version of your Network Station the

following two ways:

v Look for the H20xxxxx (MM/DD/YY) version that is indicated during the

startup sequence of the Network Station. You may need to enable the

verbose diagnostic mode to see this display (see "Enabling verbose

diagnostic messages" on page 49).

v Enter the NS Boot utility by pressing Esc during the startup sequence, and

select the Display hardware information option from the NS Boot Main

Menu.

Update your Network Station to the latest NS Boot version by doing the

following:

To manually update the NS Boot version of Network Stations with NS

Boot version H2033190 (03/31/99), see "Appendix A. Updating the NS

Boot version H2033190 (03/31/99)" on page 111.

To manually update the NS Boot version of Network Stations that are at

any other NS Boot version, see "Manually updating the NS Boot code".

To use the IBM Network Station Manager program to update the NS Boot

version from the server, perform the following procedure:

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