Configure and connect your PC Client

Configuring your PC client for use with iSeries NetServer™ ensures that you have properly set up your PC operating system to use iSeries NetServer shared resources. Configuring your PC operating system properly ensures that all supported PC clients can locate iSeries NetServer and use file and print shares. For information on setting up a Linux/Samba client to use iSeries NetServer, see the iSeries NetServer Web site, for the information on Linux/Samba client support (www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/netserver/linux.html) Link to site outside Information Center.

Set up a Windows PC client to find iSeries NetServer

iSeries NetServer supports the following Windows clients: Windows 2000; Windows XP; and Windows Server 2003.

Setting up a Windows PC client to find iSeries NetServer allows you to easily access shared resources from your Windows PC client.

You must first ensure that clients can locate iSeries NetServer on the network. If this is not the case, network PC clients can use the Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), or a LMHOSTS file to locate iSeries NetServer.

Note:
If iSeries NetServer and your Windows client are in the same workgroup (domain) and in the same subnet (network segment), then no additional setup on the client is necessary. Also no additional setup may be necessary if iSeries NetServer is to be found by IP address only.

Keep in mind that TCP/IP configuration does not require any changes to support iSeries NetServer. However, any PC client that uses iSeries NetServer must be configured with the following items:

Or, if the iSeries is not placed in the same workgroup and the same subnet as the PC client as stated in the item above, then the PC client must use one of the following to locate the iSeries: