Setting Up A Primary File Server; Setting Up Preferred File Servers - Ricoh fax3310l Basic Features

4.1 Configuring NetWare 3.x
a hop occurs. The more hops, the longer it takes the data to go from the source to the
destination.
A tick is 1/100 of a second for the Network Interface Board (Novell has a different value).
Propagation delay is the time it takes for the data to travel through the network, from the
source to the destination.
At startup, the Network Interface Board automatically searches for and attaches to the file
servers that are no more than four hops away and that have no more than eight ticks
propagation delay. For extremely large or complex networks, this allows a bounded search
time on startup.
If the print server must attach to file servers beyond this range, or if you want to accelerate
start up by eliminating the need to search all file servers within the four hops/eight ticks
radius, enter the name of the file server operating with the print server in the Print Server
Configuration of a primary file server. The primary file server is a server close to the
printer and contains a list of file servers that it services. The primary file server can be any
file server within the four hops/eight ticks propagation time limits but ideally is as close as
possible to the print server. Once the print server locates the primary file server and the list
of file servers to be serviced, the automatic search stops and the print server goes directly
to those file servers listed (and to no others).

4.1.8 Setting Up a Primary File Server

1. Log in to the server you want to designate as the primary server and run
PCONSOLE on that server.
Choose File Server To Be Serviced from the Print Server Configuration menu.
2.
3. Press the Insert key to display the Available File Servers list.
4. Select the name of each file server to be serviced and press Enter to add it to the
list.
When the list is complete, press Esc to return to the menu.
5.
Install the Network Interface Board on each primary file server.
6.

4.1.9 Setting Up Preferred File Servers

You can specify a preferred file server on the Network Interface Board (see Chapter 3,
Monitoring the Network Interface Board). If a preferred file server is listed, the Network
Interface Board attaches to this identified file server instead of initiating the automatic
search. If the preferred file server is also a primary file server (for example, has file servers
listed under File Servers to Be Serviced), the Network Interface Board connects directly to
these file servers.
4-6 NetWare Configuration