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NT's Gateway Service For NetWare

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The Gateway service for NetWare was first

included with Windows NT 3.5. As the name suggests, it's a gateway between workstations

running Microsoft networking clients and a NetWare network. The advantages being that you

don't need to install Novell clients on workstations to access volumes on a NetWare

server. As Windows 3.11, Win95, and Windows NT workstation all come with client for

Microsoft networks, this saves you from the hassles of setting up additional clients, not

to mention hard disk space. The Gateway service includes a Client service and a Gateway

service. The client service is required for the NT server to logon to a NetWare network,

while the Gateway service is used to give workstations access to NetWare volumes.

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The Gateway service is installed like any

other service under Windows NT. Open Control Panel and select Network. Go to the Services

tab and click on the Add button. NT builds a list of Network Services that can be

installed. From here select Gateway and Client Services for NetWare. The system then

prompts you to put in the Windows NT CD ROM. After installation, when you close the

Network window, it builds and stores the binding configuration and asks you to restart the

server.

Now you need to do some work on the NetWare

server for which you are creating the NT Gateway. You should have administrator rights on

the NetWare server because you need to create a group called NTGATEWAY on it. Then add a

user with the same user name and password that you use on the NT server so that when the

NT server tries to access the NetWare resources, it can be validated automatically.



What we've configured so far is just the Client part of GSNW. To enable your NT server to
act as a gateway for other machines on the NT server network, you need to configure GSNW.

This can be accessed from an icon called GSNW that gets added to the Control Panel when

you install the component.

Under GSNW, you'll find a Gateway button in

the main dialog box. This takes you to the configuration setting site. There's a box

titled 'Enable Gateway'. Check this to activate gateway services. You can then assign a

special name to the Gateway account and a password (same one as for the NT and NetWare

server password).

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Now you are ready to add users who can

access the NetWare server resources. You can map each volume on the NetWare server to a

free drive letter on the NT server. After you've created Share accounts for users of the

NT Gateway, you can control access further through the 'Permissions' dialog box.

To use the new service from a Win95 or NT

workstation connected to your NT server, click on Network Neighborhood. Choose Microsoft

Networking to bring up the list of servers available. Select your NT server and you'll

find folders with the share names that you had assigned them. Clicking on a folder takes

you to the NetWare volume that was mapped to it. In case of Windows 3.11, you need to go

to the File Manager, and from there select Connect Network Drive option from the disk

menu. This should show you all the Microsoft workgroups and servers on your network.

Choose your server, and map a drive letter to it. That's all. Now you can access the

NetWare server through your NT server.

Reprinted from PC Quest,



September 1997.

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