Configure NetWare Enhanced Integration

Once you have installed NetWare Enhanced Integration, you must configure it before you are ready to manage your network. Configuring NetWare Enhanced Integration involves doing these tasks:

  1. Activate the TCP/IP protocol to communicate with the NetWare servers on your network. (Systems before V4R3 can use only IPX.)
  2. Install the latest Novell NetWare patches.
  3. Install the NetWare Enhanced Integration NLM on the servers.
  4. If you want to enroll iSeries™ users on the NetWare network, create a QNetWare user on each server.
  5. (Optional) You can automate many administrative tasks by changing the QRETSVRSEC system value to allow the server to store passwords. Doing this enables the iSeries to start authenticated connections.
  6. (Optional) You can create authentication entries for each user so that the NetWare Enhanced Integration support automatically starts authenticated connections as needed to the appropriate server in the network. If you do not create an authentication entry, you must manually start the connection before using most of the administration and file system functions. For details about authentication entries, you can refer to Manage NetWare server connections and authentication.
  7. Whenever convenient after installing the NetWare Enhanced Integration product, perform an IPL. The IPL mounts the QNetWare file system in the server's integrated file system. After the IPL, verify that the QNetWare file system is mounted by typing DSPMSG QSYSOPR on the command line and look for the message CPCA08C that says 
    /QNetWare file system mounted.
  8. (Optional) Verify connections to the NLMs. Once the QNetWare file system is mounted and TCP/IP is active, the NetWare Enhanced Integration support is available.
  9. If your network has primarily NetWare servers, you can simplify working with those servers by defining network server attributes that change iSeries command defaults. You must use this step to identify the NetWare servers to iSeries.
  10. If you are upgrading to Version 4, Release 5 and previously had NetWare Integration installed on an Integrated xSeries Server, you can save space by unlinking and deleting network server descriptions.

Once you complete these configuration tasks, you are ready to manage your network. If you plan to manage NetWare users and their passwords from an iSeries server, you need to enroll the iSeries user profiles. Refer to Manage NetWare users from iSeries for more information about enrolling and managing users.