If you have primarily NetWare servers on your network, you can simplify working with those servers by changing default values on a system-wide basis.
Many network server commands, such as DSPNWSUSR and WRKNWSSTS, allow you to specify *NWSA for a given parameter to indicate that the server should use information from the network server attributes.
For example, if you plan to enroll most of your users on the same set of NDS trees, you can simplify enrollment by first defining a default list of those trees. Then when you enroll users, you can refer to that list of default attributes by specifying *NWSA on the appropriate command parameters. Adding or removing network servers is also simpler because you change the default server list instead of manually changing all the profiles that refer to it.
When you are running TCP/IP, you must use the CHGNWSA command to add the TCP/IP names of the NetWare servers. Enhanced Integration for Novell NetWare uses this list of names to find the TCP/IP NetWare servers. This is the only place that the server uses the TCP/IP name of the NetWare server. After identifying NetWare servers from this list, NetWare Enhanced Integration knows the servers by their NetWare server names, not their TCP/IP names.
In addition, you can change the default value of the TCP/IP port from 20199 to some other value. If you change the default port value, you must load the NetWare Enhanced Integration NLM with the parameter /tcp=nnnn, where nnnn is the new port value. If you decide to change this value after loading the NLM, you must unload and reload the NLM with the new value.
To set these attributes on an individual user profile basis instead, you can use the CHGNWSUSRA command. Network server attributes are saved by the Save System (SAVSYS) command. Network server attributes are restored to the system when the operating system is installed.
Network attributes describe the local system name, the default local location name, the default control point name, the local network identifier, and the network node type. If the machine is an end node, the attributes also contain the names of the network servers that are used by this system. Network attributes also determine whether the system uses HPR, or whether you want to use virtual controllers for APPN.
The Change Network Attributes (CHGNETA) command is used to set the attributes for the system within the network. The following attributes are defined for DISTRIB and these attributes apply to all connections in the network for this end node.
The network server user attributes preserve network information for a group or user profile. Many of the administrative commands use some of this information, such as the default server type, default context, and default NDS tree. The network server user attributes also contain a list of NDS trees, and associated user information that are used by the user enrollment support to enroll the user or group on NetWare. You can set defaults for this same information on a system-wide basis by using the Change Network Server Attribute (CHGNWSA) command. To specify these attributes on an individual or group profile basis and enroll server users to NetWare servers, you use the CHGNWSUSRA command. You use these attributes to specify the NDS trees on which you want to enroll users.
Network Print Server objects have attributes. The Network Print Server supports the following attributes. Refer to the data stream description for each object and action to determine the attributes that are supported for that combination.