Re: Novell for the DOS card in PowerMac 6100 -Reply

Shel Sax (sax@gw.middlebury.edu)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:43:28 EDT

Bruce,
I had the same problem you described trying to get Novell ipx/spx
protocols running under Windows '95. I believe the problem is that
the Novell drivers included in Win95 are of the 32 bit flavor, and
there is some 16 bit code between the DOS card and the PowerMac's
ethernet card. I'm not sure of the specifics.
However, installing Novell's LanWorkPlace for DOS and using those
Novell drivers rather than Microsoft's enabled me to run both ipx/spx
and tcp/ip from the DOS side. As you've mentioned, one can't run the
same protocol on both operating systems simultaneously, so I disabled
MacTCP (or OpenTransport) tobe able to run ip on the DOS side. Hope
this helps.

Shel Sax
sax@gw.middlebury.edu

At 11:51 PM 7/8/96, Larry Niebur wrote:
>I have a school that will have both AppleShare and Novell servers on an
>ethernet LAN. They would like to use DOS cards in PowerMacs to access the
>Novell Netware server when they switch to DOS and the AppleShare server
>when they switch back to the Mac OS.
>
>How much of a hassle is it to set up the machine to work that way? Will
>the machine switch from ipx to appletalk/ethertalk as easily as it will
>switch from DOS to Mac OS?

Bruce Carter <bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu> replied:
>It's pretty easy, just don't try to use the same protocol on both
>parts of the machine. If you stick with IPX on the DOS/Windows side
>and AppleTalk on the Mac side and pick one or the other for TCP/IP
>you'll be fine. It doesn't even really "switch" as even when you
>have the Mac OS on the screen
>DOS/Windows can still be running in the background.
>
>I have not, however, been able to get Windows 95 networking running
>correctly on mine. It may have something to do with the local
>network.