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by gary mcp 1 view

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Hi,
We are experiencing a strange problem on our network. I've set up a conditional login script based on the Hexadecimal rendition of the IP address using the NETWORK_Address variable.

The problem seems to be that some of our workstations are getting an IPX connection to the server, even though IP is set as the prefered protocol in the Novell 32-bit client, and is first in all the network bindings.

The problem only occurs on Windows NT 4 machines -Windows 2000 machines on the same subnet are ok.

Server is Netware 5.1, running both IP and IPX.

I know that I can change the conditions in the script to include the IPX address, but we plan to migrate to a pure IP environment, and I don't want to put in something I'll have to takeout in a few months.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Gary

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by budthegrey

A "default" installation of the netware client will install both IP and IPX, and it seems to have a mind of it's own when to ignore the "preferred protocol" settings.

Re-install the client, using the "custom" install. You'll get a choice of whatprotocol to use. Choose IP Only". There will be a check box to remove IPX from the workstation is it's there. If you have no other applications using IPX, this should be safe.

Once installed, go to the novell client properties page, on the "Protocol preferences" tab, and make sure that only NDS and SLP are chosen as methods for finding servers.

If you haven't done it yet, set up SLP on the server, and put the server's address in the 'Directory Agent List' on the service location tab.
hth

by gary mcp

Thanks Bud! I had thought that it was just "one of those things", thanks for confirming it. As suggested, we're going to push ahead with the migration to pure IP.

Thanks again.
Gary

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