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Damian Potesta

We have a customer asking if it's possible to load IPX on
XP Embedded.
Since it's a thin client there is no media to go back to.
If I were able to get my hands on a copy of XP Embedded is
it possible to load the IPX protocol?
Thanks,
Damian
 
Yes, it is possible to load the IPX/SPX protocol on Windows Embedded.
There is a small problem with it though, it does not startup automatically
on
bootup. There are three ways to rectify this:

1) In TD, add a FBA Generic Command under the resources of the root
component
with the following parameters: (Leave the other parameters set to
their default)
Arguments: -v -l %17%\netnwlnk.inf -c p -I MS_NWIPX

FilePath: %11%\snetcfg.exe

Phase: 5600

or

2) At a command prompt on your runtime, you can run the
command:

snetcfg -v -l %windir\inf\netnwlnk.inf -c p -I MS_NWIPX

or

3) Manually adding NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBios Compatible Transport
Protocol to your Local Area Connection Properties, under Network Properties
in your runtime.

After doing any of these, the service will startup on all bootups. Hope
this helps!

-Bill
 
Thanks for the information. When I go into my networking
properties and click "Install - Protocols". It of course
can not find any suitable protocols to load so where do I
point it to in order to load the IPX protocol. I do have
an XP Embedded CD. Can I load the protocol from that?
 
Did you include the IPX component in your runtime? If so then
just run "snetcfg -v -l %windir\inf\netnwlnk.inf -c p -I MS_NWIPX"
that's the easiest way. If you want to add it afterwards you will
need to have all the components necessary to use the networking
properties dialog and have IPX as a choice.
 
There is no easy way for you to do this unless you
know that you have all the dependencies and
files/registry keys associated with the IPX protocol
and the networking places dialog. You can see
this information by looking at the component in
Target Designer. But just keep in mind that like
I said if you are missing a dependency then all
the files and registry keys won't get the job done.

-Bill
 
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