
              NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              v2.1 NetWare Client for OS/2 Patches
DOCUMENT ID:        TID021339
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               18NOV94
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         R210FT.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare Client for OS/2 2.10

ABSTRACT:

These patches have not been submitted to Novell system test.  THE FUTURE HOME
FOR R210FT.EXE WILL BE NOVLIB/05.  ALL USERS SHOULD REFER TO THIS LIBRARY FOR
FUTURE RELEASES.  Patched NetWare OS/2 utilities are no longer contained in
this file.  A hybrid set of OS/2 utilities from v3.12 NetWare can be found in
OS2UTA.EXE & OS2UTB.EXE, NetWare v3.11 users should consider these utilites. 
NetWare v3.x & v4.x users can get OS2UTP.EXE which contains the latest patched
OS/2 utilities.   These files are found in NOVLIB/06.

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SYMPTOM

NETX.EXE would not allow access to modify (write) files when File Scan rights
had been revoked.

SOLUTION

Apply  NETX.EXE, 85226 bytes,  10-18-94.

SYMPTOM

NETX.EXE displays all drives that are not NetWare drives, as Local drives,
regardless of whether they are local or mapped by another requester ( IBM's
Lan Requester).

SYMPTOM

Netx.exe will not load when using a VMB (Virtual Boot Machine) if the Dos
version is greater than  v6.00.

SOLUTION

Apply  NETX.EXE, 83869 bytes,  08-05-94.

SYMPTOM

Some DOS applications (ie Norton's SI.EXE) when executed so that output is
redirected to a file on the network would give garbage in the output file.
(ie. SI > F:\TEST.TXT) 

SOLUTION

Apply NETX.EXE, 83869 bytes, 6-10-94.

SYMPTOM

The DOS calls "FindFirstFile" and "FindNextFile" do not work properly in a
Private DOS session (VDM).  The problem occurs when trying to do DOS find file
calls inside a loop of DOS find files when the files are on different drives
(one network, one local).  The same program, modified for the same drive (both
network or both local), works correctly.

SOLUTION

Apply NETX.EXE, 83885 bytes, 6-6-94.


SYMPTOM

SPX applications in VDMs would lose connections.

SYMPTOM

When running with Pentium or other SL-Enhanced processors IPX activity would
occur even when interrupts had been disabled for the VDM.

SOLUTION

Apply VIPX.SYS, 53248 bytes, 11-08-94.
Apply DOSVIPX.SYS, 10560 bytes, 11-08-94.


SYMPTOM

Slower than expected performance when accessing network resources.

SOLUTION

Apply NWREW.SYS, 31764 bytes, 10-28-94.

SYMPTOM

Network drives cannot be accessed in Global VDMs after the workstation is RPL
booted.

SOLUTION

Apply NWREQ.SYS, 31764 bytes, 7-21-94.

SYMPTOM

Error SYS1039 and SYS1040 would occur and connection would be lost with Packet
Burst enabled or if using large packet size (4202).   This would occur when
using a remote link product ( Lan Distance from IBM) and  the NetWare Client
Kit v2.10.   

SOLUTION

Apply NWREQ.SYS, 31780 bytes, 7-01-94 and  PBURST.EXE   From NOVLIB/05 .

SYMPTOM

When logging into a server that is not a preferred server and then loading
NWTools, the workstation will be logged out of the server it was just logged
into.

SOLUTION

Apply NWREQ.SYS, 31780 bytes, 7-01-94 

SYMPTOM

Customer running IBM Lan Requester v3.0 and NetWare Requester v2.10.  Customer
captures or redirects LPT1 to a NetWare Queue and LPT2 to a Lan Server Queue. 
Then Executes "ENDCAP /ALL". This produces the following Trap in NWREQ.SYS

 TRAP D NWREQ:CGROUP: DHL_DecrementFlobalLocks:
 ip=3730, cmp WORD ptr  es:[01fe], +00   es=0 therefore Invalid.

SOLUTION

Apply NWREQ.SYS, 31380 bytes, 5-26-94.

SYMPTOM

Receiving errors and a loss of connection when crossing a router when the
NetWare Client is using LIP and Packet Burst.  After they boot up the OS/2
workstation and run login, the following errors occur during the login
process:  

 "REQ1040: Requester timed out waiting for reply from server <servername>"

 "SYS2070: A program in this session encountered a problem and cannot
continue.

 (more info... The system could not demand load the application's segment. 
Capture is in error. For additional details type HELP SYS59244559.)"  
 
 "LOGIN-4.07 760: The utility could not execute the program CAPTURE.  The
program was not found." 

SOLUTION

Apply NWREQ.SYS, 31380 bytes, 5-26-94 and NWIFS.IFS, 40036 bytes, 5-26-94.

SYMPTOM

Previous revisions of NWIFS handled a trailing DBCS character containing the
value 0x5C incorrectly.  It assumed that the trailing byte was a directory
separator and would append a '*' to the name in DosFindFirst.

Previous revisions of NWIFS would send 512 bytes of data on each DosFindNext
request, causing performance problems on wide-area networks.

Revisions of NWIFS since 6-14-94 fixed a problem where file handles inherited
by a child process were prematurely closed if the parent process exits before
the child.  Unfortunately, file locks would not be implicitly released if the
owning process closed the file and another process had the same file open. 
This change has been removed from the IFS.

SOLUTION

Apply NWIFS.IFS, 40196 bytes, 10-6-94.

SYMPTOM

Applications that do file and record locking may appear to run slower than
expected.

CAUSE

The IFS was failing to reset a lock semiphore when it received a failed
condition on a file lock attempt.

SOLUTION

Apply NWIFS.IFS,  40084 bytes,  08-31-94.

SYMPTOM

The NWIFS.IFS would match search queries even on files which do not contain
attributes required by the search.  For instance, specifying
"directories-only" in the REXX function SysFileTree did not exclude ordinary
files from the list.

SYMPTOM

NWIFS.IFS would prematurely close file handles inherited by a child process
when the parent process exits.  For instance, redirecting a child process's
output to a file and calling the 'C' function execv() would cause the child
process to get an invalid file handle error because the parent process had
exited.

SOLUTION

Apply NWIFS.IFS, 40084 bytes, 6-17-94.

SYMPTOM

The first network drive (default L:) is not available until the PMSHELL.EXE is
loaded.

CAUSE

NWDAEMON.EXE  was changed to be a PM application and the first network drive
was not made available until PMSHELL.EXE loads.

SOLUTION

Apply NWDAEMON.EXE, 36269 bytes, 5-26-94.

SYMPTOM

SPX applications would hang.

CAUSE

Previous revisions of SPX did not check for an illegal datastream type in an
ECB submitted to SendSequencedPacket().  SPX now returns the SPX_BAD_PACKET
error code in this situation.

SYMPTOM

SPX was sending duplicate data frames on wide area or slower networks, the SPX
parameter SEND TIMEOUT used in the NET.CFG did not function.

CAUSE

The SEND TIMEOUT parameter in NET.CFG now defaults to 500 milliseconds, with a
minimum of 100 msec and a maximum of 6000 msec.  This is added to the round
trip time and averaged with the current retry delay if no timeout occurs. 
When sending a retry, the current retry delay is increased by 50% for each
retry up to a maximum of 6 seconds.  Send retries are now always dynamic. 
Instead of returning an A400h error without aborting the connection, a send
timeout now returns A3EDh (connection aborted) and aborts the connection.

SOLUTION

Apply SPX.SYS, 15540 bytes, 09-02-94.


SYMPTOM

Named Pipes communication in a VDM would fail shortly after a DOS open was
communicated to the Named Pipe server.

SOLUTION

Apply NMPIPE.SYS, 17792 bytes, 11-11-94.


SYMPTOM

VDMs on RPL (Remote Program Load) workstations will only show 588k bytes of
available memory.

CAUSE

MINI.IFS was allocating real memory and not releasing it.

SOLUTION

Apply MINI.IFS, 8673 bytes, 6-23-94.  The MINI.IFS is used ONLY with Remote
Program Load.


SYMPTOM

WINOS2 SPX Database client application "Forest & Trees" would get sys3176
errors after multiple queries.  NWIPXSPX.DLL was not freeing resources
properly. In WINOS2 session if an attempt was made to make an SPX connection
to a database server that was not available the WINOS2 session would hang. 

SOLUTION

Apply NWIPXSPX DLL, 38736 bytes, 6-21-94.

SYMPTOM

1.  Error "NWTOOLS-4.10-62 : The send command has failed" occurs if you try to
send a message to more that 64 users. 

2.  Nwtools will setup or capture ports LPT4-LPT9, but will not reload or
setup these ports when loading the *.NWS files.          

SOLUTION

Apply NWTOOLS.EXE   565909 bytes, 7-05-94.

Self-Extracting File Name:  R210FT.EXE     Revision:  A

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

\
  R210FT.TXT         (This File)
     SPX.SYS      15540   09-02-94   10:47a
    MINI.IFS       8673   06-23-94    3:13p
    NETX.EXE      85226   10-18-94    3:19p
    VIPX.SYS      53248   11-08-94    4:46p
   NWIFS.IFS      40196   10-06-94    4:16p
   NWREQ.SYS      31764   10-28-94    2:52p
  NMPIPE.SYS      17792   11-11-94   11:45a
 DOSVIPX.SYS      10560   11-08-94    4:46p
 NWTOOLS.EXE     565909   07-05-94    2:45p
NWDAEMON.EXE      36269   05-26-94    3:10p
NWIPXSPX.DLL      38736   06-21-94    3:02p


Installation Instructions:

* Create a directory called INSTALL$.NEW under \NETWARE.  Copy all files into
\NETWARE\INSTALL$.NEW and reboot.

* NWIPXSPX.DLL will need to be manually copied to C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.

* MINI.IFS should be manually copied to the SYS:RPL2 subdir on your NetWare
server if you are using Remote Program Load.

* It is a good idea to make sure you have backups of all files being replaced.


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