Novell 3.2 IPX and XP Pro

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We are having an issue with an application that is running on a 3.2 Novell
server(Yes I know) and we are starting to use XP Pro to access this program
now having moved up from wondows 98. The reason that we are using Novell 3.2
is that this application does not run well on W2K or W2K3 very well. It is
COBOL based and has certian undesired results on an Win platform.

First of all we are using Dell Precision 370 workstations with Broadcom
NetXtreme 57xx gigabit cotrollers, all but a few are XP SP1 the others SP2 to
see if there was a fix or patch. We have set card to both auto-negotiate as
well as 100 / half and auto-frame as well locked to 802.3. The machines that
are trouble, and it is not all the machines, have to be locled to 802.3 in
order to even see the Novell server. This was NOT an issue with XP Pro
upgrade, but reared its ugly head about the time we brought in some machines
with SP1 or XP on them.

We have recabled two stations, one appeared to fix the issue the other
failed, cat 5E cable. We have locked the card down to 100 / half to no avail.

the two successful connections are into a Baystack 254 10 / 100 switching
hub the other unsucessful is in a Dell PowerConnect 3348 switch, set to auto
negotiate.

BUT we have some XP SP2 machines, that are running happily along with no
issues.

Has anyone else had the IPX / XP Pro attach and disconnect issue too ??

I would apprreciate any insight into this as my Tech and I are to close to
the issue now and we need a DF steer now !!!

Thanks all in advance.
 
Did you try to statically add the IPX Network Number? Most people never do
that because in the past it usually auto-negociated that well enough,...but
being the skeptic that I am,...I never trust anything to work right,..I have
had to manually add the IPX Network number for some small IPX/SPX systems
that ran Games that only used IPX/SPX. The different Game Hosts couldn't
find each other until I gave them all identical Network numbers,...and those
machines were running XP-Pro.

IPX and Novell are certainly not my "area" and I probably won't be able to
tell you any more than that.
 
Yes we did. We have locked the cards to 802.3 to our network IPX address.
This is the way we can make these make these machines both see the Novell
server and log on to it.





Phillip Windell said:
Did you try to statically add the IPX Network Number? Most people never do
that because in the past it usually auto-negociated that well enough,...but
being the skeptic that I am,...I never trust anything to work right,..I have
had to manually add the IPX Network number for some small IPX/SPX systems
that ran Games that only used IPX/SPX. The different Game Hosts couldn't
find each other until I gave them all identical Network numbers,...and those
machines were running XP-Pro.

IPX and Novell are certainly not my "area" and I probably won't be able to
tell you any more than that.
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