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AN OVERVIEW OF NETWARE LITE 1.0

****** WARNING ******

I can only describe what is happening on the hardware/software combo that
I am using. I know you knew that. I'm repeating it so that I get inquiries not
hate mail. At the end of this NetWare Lite overview you'll find a complete de-
scription of my systems. But you may want to know from the onset that I'm using
Generic MS-DOS 3.3. In order to spare you a diatribe but answer those who may
be wondering about upgrading DOS I'll put an explanation on why I don't upgrade
to MS-DOS 5.0 or DR-DOS 6.0 at the end of this overview. See section titled --
WHY I HAVEN'T UPGRADED.


YUMMIES, FACTS & OPINIONS ABOUT NETWARE LITE

For those of you who have not read about NetWare Lite {NL here after}.

OPINION - NL is suitable for home and small to medium business needs. For busi-
nesses it will provide a quick and inexpensive way into the Novell Networking
World, with no loss of investment when a business is ready to move to NetWare
2.1 or above. For business with existing Novell systems, it is fully compatible
and offers the chance to do some novel things.

FACT - Installation of the software & preparation {security etc.} is easy
and quick. Even if you change your mind or Network Cards or just play
around to look at things, reinstallation is easy. By quick I mean
that after installing network cards and cabling you can be up and
running in 15-30 minutes including backups of the original software.


FACT - The documentation while lacking a technical description of some areas
of concern, Read Buffers and Receive Buffers. Doesn't weigh 50 lbs.
It's all contained in 160 odd pages and while to simplistic for some,
is perfect for the first time user or non-network non-technical per-
son.

FACT - NL's effect on your system resources is minimal you won't see it slow
down your computer.

FACT - NL itself is fast at transferring files, and updating files. Random &
sequential access remains fast even when both machines are running
heavy processes. Note I have not gone beyond 5 workstations yet, but
each was running only NL and were not sharing the cabling with any
other NetWare. Testing is always a long hard process.

FACT - The configuration options in the program NET.EXE meet the real needs
of anyone planning to run NL in a work environment.

OPINION - Printer sharing is possible and desirable for character based pro-
grams.

OPINION - Printer sharing for graphics applications is not satisfactory.

OPINION - NL is a memory hog. This opinion will be the most hotly contested.
Just after this summery you find a discussion of NL Memory Require-
ments and QEMM 6.0. I come to this opinion from Netware drivers that
use WD 8003 Cards which stash a kernel in low memory and allow the
use of expanded or extended memory for the bulk of their code.

FACT - The above opinion will be tempered by your own requirements. IE. do
you desire two way peer to peer or one way. Do you need printer shar-
ing . Are your network cards 8 or 16 bit. Ah gotcha on that, right?
So far I have not seen any discussion of memory figures for NL that
have included the Network cards ram memory, but as far as I'm con-
cerned the cards ram memory requirement reduce your system memory and
in this day and age of high memory management, Windows 3.0 and
DESQview, this reduction MUST be considered as part of the overall
memory requirements of NL. Just how important 8 lowly k of high mem-
ory is, will be dependent on your needs and uses, but it was import-
ant enough for me, that I replaced 16 bit cards with 8 bit cards. And
by the way I noticed no reduction in throughput.

FACT - I have stated elsewhere that in my work environment I use NetWare 2.1
and below. If a server goes down or is taken down the workstations or
clients must relog and remap to regain access. NL does a superb job
of allowing the client to retry lost connections. And a simple bat
file will as with NetWare 2.1 take care of relogging and remapping.

OPINION - NL does a great job of trapping keyboard attempts to .
Options are needed here to make it satisfactory in a work environ-
ment . Novell must add, in it's next version, a password protect
routine that demands a password if the routine finds client files
open. Right now the routine allows you to back out or continue with
the warm boot.

FACT - Using MS-DOS 3.3 and Qemm 6.0 you can load NL's files into high mem-
ory. If you are operating as Server and Client then only Server.exe
or Client.exe can be loaded high, but not both. You can use stealth
parameters in your Qemm 6.0 configuration and NetWare Lite will work.

FACT - An experienced NetWare user friend of mine tells me that the above
holds true for MS-DOS 5.0 using Qemm 6.0.


NetWare Lite files and memory considerations

Once the installation program is finished it will have created on your
disk, a directory (you have the option of naming it anything you wish). In this
directory it places the files need to allow you to become a Server, a client,
or Both. It even creates a bat file to load the software or demonstrate to you
the proper load sequence.

THESE ARE THE FILES YOU NEED TO LOAD INTO MEMORY.

LSL -------- Link Support. IPX talks to device drivers.
WDPLUS ------ Network interface board drivers. Names & memory sizes may differ
with different Manufacturers boards.
IPXODI A --- Controls packet transmission between machines on lan.
SHARE ------ Optional / Needed on Server Machine only. Dangerous not to use.
SERVER ----- Needed by at least one machine on the lan.
CLIENT ------ Allows workstation to access files on the server.

With regards to memory consideration. During my testing I only observed
one file change sizes significantly as I made changes to servers parameters.
The file Server.exe. It went from a low of 42k to a high of 54k.


Listed below are the best fit configuration file sizes I have arrived at for my
system.

Machine configured as a server only.

LSL --------------- 3.6K
WDPLUS ------------- 3.9K
IPXODI A ---------- 6.9K
SHARE ------------- 5.9K
SERVER ------------ 46.0K No printer sharing.
-------
66.3K Not counting the Network boards ram.
74.3K With Network board ram included.

Machine configured as a client only.

LSL --------------- 3.6K
WDPLUS ------------- 3.9K
IPXODI A ---------- 6.9K
CLIENT ------------- 13.5K No printer sharing.
-------
27.9K Not counting the Network boards ram.
35.9K With Network board ram included.

Machine configured as server and client.

LSL --------------- 3.6K
WDPLUS ------------- 3.9K
IPXODI A ---------- 6.9K
SHARE ------------- 5.9K
SERVER ------------ 46.0K No printer sharing.
CLIENT ------------- 13.5K
--------
79.8K Not counting the Network boards ram.
87.8K With Network board ram included.

Below is a snapshot of my high memory region with the above files
loaded.

IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
: Region Area Size Status :
: 1 B000 - B00C 0.2K Used (QEMM386) :
: 1 B00D - B0D3 3.1K Used (NANSI286) :
: 1 B0D4 - B69F 23K Used (SMARTDRV) :
: 1 B6A0 - B705 1.5K Used (SJDRIVER) :
: 1 B706 - B7A7 2.5K Used (HPSCANER) :
: 1 B7A8 - B7FE 1.3K Available :
: 2 CE00 - CEEA 3.6K Used (LSL) :
: 2 CEEB - CFE7 3.9K Used (WDPLUS) :
: 2 CFE8 - D1A2 6.9K Used (IPXODI) :
: 2 D1A3 - DD54 46K Used (SERVER) :
: 2 DD55 - EBFE 58K Available :
: 3 FC00 - FEFF 12K Available :
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<

Below is my config.sys file, with the Qemm parameters note especially the
exclusions for Stealth. The X=FF00-FFFF Seems to be important in order to make
NetWare Lite Stable. The X=C000-C7FF exclusion is needed by Windows 3.0 on my
system. Note- I include these addresses in Windows system.ini file along with
B000-B7FF. I have been running Windows 3.0 since it became available. Under
Windows I run some very demanding software. Publishers Paintbrush by Zsoft, Ami
Pro 2.0 from Lotus, FoxPro Lan from Fox, PC AnyWhere II from DMA, Scanners and
CD-ROMs. Many of these software packages are run simultaneously. They all work
with NetWare Lite and I haven't had a burp yet.

rem c:\configs\WIN3.SYS
shell=c:\command.com /E:450/P
stacks=0,0
buffers=2
files=32
LASTDRIVE=W
device=c:\qemm\qemm386.sys /R:1 DMA=64 ROM RAM ARAM=C800-CDFF
ST:M X=C000-C7FF X=FF00-FFFF
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /R:1 c:\drivers\nansi286.sys
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /R:1 c:\drivers\smartdrv.sys 2048 1024
device=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DRIVERS\SJDRIVER.SYS
device=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DRIVERS\HPSCANER.SYS /H
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 c:\drivers\SONY_CDU.SYS /D:MSCD001
/B:340 /U:1 /M:H /Q:5 /T:*


WHY I HAVEN'T UPGRADED

Our business must remain functional during the day. Invoicing, purchase
ordering, computer faxing, our 8 Books in Print on CD-ROM, Invoice History
etc., MUST all be available or we cannot function. Thus all Workstations in our
42 Workstation 4 NetWare Servers system have large Disk drives to accommodate
local batch files for nightly batch processing, as well as redundancy. IE. Six
workstations can do invoicing in case of the ultimate emergency . During the
night complex bat files and in house written software use the network to comm-
unicate between machines, transfer data and update files, backup to tape and
even change their own CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT files. The Books In Print
CD-ROM software requires weekly updates that take about 20 30 minutes of down
loading from floppy disk and 4-6 hours of processing. With eight machines
running this software it would be stupid not to do as I have done and automate
the process so that even the newest employee can do the updating via menu on
one workstation and then have the system do a nightly transfer to the other
seven Workstations.

It's a one man show, mine so I have gone to great lengths to automate
even the simplest of things. Workstation's nightly do checks of their disk and
take appropriate action if something is wrong as well as notify me. Once a month
each workstation backs all it's software to the network, double checks that the
backups are perfect and then refresh their own disks, mark bad blocks etc. then
reload the backup software and data and double check it all again. In 9 years I
have never had to tell the boss we have lost data. Never once has The Network
gone down due to any problems with the NetWare software, or Servers. But we
have had several disasters that have shut down the network for more than a few
days. We have had a flood, a fire, a fifty thousand volt surge, and a few
other incidents. Through it all we stayed open and worked efficiently using
Workstations.

Thank God our Business does not require real time multiuser transaction
processing.

Add to the above paragraphs the fact that our four Novell Netware servers all
run Netware Version 2.1 and below. I am not about at this time to chance moving
to a new dos. MS-DOS 5.0 requires Netware 2.15 and above according to Microsoft
and DR_DOS 6.0 is still to new and untested. Looking at the functionality of
Both MS_DOS 5.0 and DR-Dos 6.0 I see nothing there that would justify the ex-
pendure of Thousands of Dollars To upgrade the Novell Software, Purchase 42
Doses, test all Workstation and perhaps Rewrite in house software. Lastly, I
can tell you that the combination of MS-DOS 3.3 and Qram on a 286 or QEMM 6.0
on a 386/486 is still superior to upgrading to any other DOS. Yes I have
done extensive testing and yes I'd spend the money and I'd upgrade everything
tomorrow but not for just a Kiss and a Promise.

MARTY JACOBSON
OPAMP TECHNICAL BOOKS INC.
(213)-464-4322

System / Overview
486 EISA
Processor i486
Video Adapter VGA
BIOS Mylex
BIOS Date 05/13/91
Coprocessor 80387
Keyboard Enhanced
Parallel Ports 2
Serial Ports 2

Total Available
Conventional Memory 640K 564K
Expanded Memory 31840K 29216K
Extended Memory 31744K 0K

System / CONFIG
rem c:\configs\ WIN3.SYS
shell=c:\command.com /E:450/P
stacks=0,0
buffers=2
files=32
LASTDRIVE=W
device=c:\qemm\qemm386.sys /R:1 DMA=64 ROM RAM ARAM=C
...800-CDFF ST:M X=C000-C7FF X=FF00-FFFF
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /R:1 c:\drivers\nansi286.sy
...s
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /R:1 c:\drivers\smartdrv.sy
...s 2048 1024
device=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DRIVERS\SJDRIVER.SY
...S
device=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DRIVERS\HPSCANER.SY
...S /H
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 c:\drivers\SONY_CDU.SY
...S /D:MSCD001 /B:340 /U:1 /M:H /Q:5 /T:*

System / AUTOEXEC
@ECHO OFF
CTTY NUL:
PATH=C:\UTIL;C:\BAT;C:\DOS;C:\NWLITE
SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM
SET LIB=E:\LIB
SET LINK=/SE:500
SET NAME=WIN3
SET TEMP=P:\TEMP
SET TMP=P:\TEMP
SET COPYQM=VERIFY;ALL
SET FOXPROCFG=C:\FOXPRO\CONFIG.FP
PROMPT=$P$_
IF NOT EXIST F:\WINDOWS\*.THB GOTO SKIP0
DEL F:\WINDOWS\*.THB
:SKIP0
IF NOT EXIST C:\~*.* GOTO SKIP1
DEL C:\~*.*
CALL C:\AUTOBATS\DELTEMPS.BAT C
:SKIP1
IF NOT EXIST P:\TEMP\~*.* GOTO SKIP2
DEL P:\TEMP\~*.*
CALL C:\AUTOBATS\DELTEMPS.BAT P
:SKIP2
IF NOT EXIST O:\PUBTEMP\~*.* GOTO SKIP3
DEL O:\PUBTEMP\~*.*
CALL C:\AUTOBATS\DELTEMPS.BAT O
:SKIP3
C:
CD \
PATH=C:\UTIL;C:\BAT;C:\DOS;C:\NWLITE;K:\AMIPRO;C:\HDI
...PCDOS
CALL C:\AUTOBATS\NETWORK.BAT
C:
CD \
:EXIT
CTTY CON
CALL C:\AUTOBATS\AUTOEXIT.BAT WINDOWS
:FINI

System / Adapters
Video Display Adapter
Type: VGA
Monitor: Color Display
Video Memory: A000 - AFFF Graphics
B800 - BFFF Text
Video ROM: C000 - C7FF


Disk Adapters
Device No. Type Heads Cyls Sect Capacity
Diskette 1 2 2 80 15 1.2 MB
Diskette 2 4 2 80 18 1.4 MB
------------------------------------------------
Fixed Disk 1 43 12 987 35 212.2 MB
Fixed Disk 2 43 12 987 35 212.2 MB


Serial / Printer Adapters
Serial Signals
No. Port CD RI DSR CTS
1 03F8 - - - -
2 02F8 - - - -

Printer Signals
No. Port SEL OOP ACK NBZ
1 0378 * - - -
2 0278 - - - -



System / CMOS
Time 7:17 AM
Date October 21, 1991

Base Memory 640K
Extended Memory 31744K

Diskette Drives Primary = 1.2 MB
Secondary = 1.44 MB

Fixed Disks Primary = Type 43
Secondary = Type 12587

First Meg / Overview
Memory Area Size Description
0000 - 003F 1K Interrupt Area
0040 - 004F 0.3K BIOS Data Area
0050 - 006F 0.5K System Data
0070 - 0E75 56K DOS
0E76 - 12D1 17K Program Area
12D2 - 9FFF 564K [Available]
===Conventional memory ends at 640K====
A000 - AFFF 64K VGA Graphics
B000 - B7FF 32K High RAM
B800 - BFFF 32K VGA Text
C000 - C7FF 32K Video ROM
C800 - CDFF 24K Unused
CE00 - EBFF 120K High RAM
EC00 - FBFF 64K Page Frame
FC00 - FEFF 12K High RAM
FF00 - FFFF 4K System ROM

First Meg / Programs
Memory Area Size Description
0E76 - 0F49 3.3K COMMAND
0F4A - 0F4D 0.1K [Available]
0F4E - 0F6B 0.5K COMMAND Environment
0F6C - 0F81 0.3K [Available]
0F82 - 12D1 13K (0F83)
12D2 - 9FFF 564K [Available]
====Conventional memory ends at 640K=====
B000 - B00C 0.2K QEMM386
B00D - B0D3 3.1K NANSI286
B0D4 - B69F 23K SMARTDRV
B6A0 - B705 1.6K SJDRIVER
B706 - B7A7 2.5K HPSCANER
B7A8 - B7FE 1.4K [Available]
CE00 - CEEA 3.7K LSL
CEEB - CFE7 4K WDPLUS
CFE8 - D1A2 6.9K IPXODI
D1A3 - DD54 46K SERVER
DD55 - EBFE 58K [Available]
FC00 - FEFF 12K [Available]

First Meg / Interrupts
0070: IO 01 03 04 0F
02BC: MSDOS 00 20 25 26 27 2B 2C 2D 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
0A1F: EMMXXXX0 02 06 07 0A 0C 0D 0E 11 12 15 16 1A
40 42 4B 67 6D 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
77
0E76: COMMAND 22 23 24 2E
0F82: (0F83) 10 13 17 28 2A 2F
B000: QEMM386 41 46
B00D: NANSI286 1B 29
B0D4: SMARTDRV 19
C000: Video ROM 1F 43
CEEB: WDPLUS 0B
CFE8: IPXODI 64 7A
D1A3: SERVER 05 08 09 14 21
FF00: System ROM 18 1C 1D 44 45 47 48 49 4A 4C 4D 4E
4F 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A
5B 5C 5D 5E 5F 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6E 6F

First Meg / BIOS Data
00: Serial Ports 03F8 02F8 0000 0000
08: Parallel Ports 0378 0278 0000 0000
10: Installed Hardware 8463
12: Reserved B0
13: Memory Size in Kb 0280
15: Reserved 00 00
17: Keyboard Control 20 00 00
1A: Keyboard Head/Tail 0032 0032
1E: Keyboard Buffer 1474 1C0D 2166 3C00
26: 50E0 0F09 50E0 50E0
2E: 50E0 1C0D 1177 1C0D
36: 2E63 0E08 326D 2166
3E: Diskette Data 00 00 1F 00
42: Diskette Status C3 00 00 00 00 00 00
49: Display Mode 03
4A: Number of Columns 0050
4C: Regen Buffer Length 1000
4E: Regen Buffer Start 0000
50: Cursor Positions 1029 0000 0000 0000
58: 0000 0000 0000 0000
60: Cursor Type 07 06
62: Display Page 00
63: CRT Controller Base 03D4
65: 3x8 Setting 09
66: 3x9 Setting 30
67: Reset Vector 0B08:017E
6B: Interrupt Occurred 02
6C: Timer Counter 0007:48A6
70: Timer Overflow 00
71: Break Bit 00
72: Reset Word 1200
74: Fixed Disk Status 00
75: Fixed Disks Attached 02
76: Fixed Disk Control 08
77: Reserved 00
78: Printer Timeouts 14 14 14 34
7C: Serial Timeouts 01 01 01 01
80: Keyboard Start 001E
82: Keyboard End 003E
84: Screen Rows (Less 1) 18
85: Character Height 0010
87: Video Control States 60 F9
89: Reserved 11 0B
8B: Media Control 01
8C: Fixed Disk Data 50 01 00
8F: Reserved 00
90: Media States 02 61
92: Reserved 00 00
94: Current Cylinders 00 00
96: Keyboard State 10
97: Keyboard LED 12
98: User Wait Routine 0040:00A0
9C: User Wait Count 0000:0018
A0: Wait Active Flag 00
A1: Reserved 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A8: EGA Structures C000:2434

Expanded / Overview
QEMM-386 v. 6.00
EMS Version 4.0 and EEMS 3.2
Page Frame EC00
Mappable Pages 40

Total Available
Expanded Memory 31840K 29216K
EMS Handles 64 62
Real Alternate Maps 8 8


Expanded / Handles
Handle Size Name
0 576K
1 2048K EMB1


Extended / Overview
Memory Area Size Status
1024K - 32767K 31744K Used from Top

Extended / XMS
XMS Version 3.00
Driver Revision 6.00
High Memory Area Available
A20 Disabled
Handles Available 62
Shares Memory with EMS Yes

Total Largest
Memory Block Type Available Available
Upper (640K - 1024K) 71K 58K
Extended (above 1024K) 10240K 10240K

DOS / Overview
DOS version 3.30

Kernel: 38K*
Drivers: 13K
Base Data: 4K Memory Area Size Description
Total: 56K 0070 - 02BB 9.2K IO
02BC - 0A1E 29K MSDOS
FILES=32 0A1F - 0D77 13K Drivers
FCBS=4,0 0D78 - 0DD1 1.4K 27 FILES
BUFFERS=2 0DD2 - 0DDF 0.2K 4 FCBS
LASTDRIVE=W 0DE0 - 0E00 0.5K 1 BUFFERS
STACKS=0,0 0E01 - 0E75 1.8K Drive List

* Includes:
5 FILES and
1 BUFFERS

DOS / Drivers
Attributes
Memory Area Size Driver Program CSBxRxxxxLxxKNOI
NUL MSDOS C N
0B1F - 0D77 9.4K MSCD001 CS R
0B0F - 0B1E 0.3K IMGSCAN$ CS
0AFF - 0B0E 0.3K HPSCAN CS
0AEF - 0AFE 0.3K SMARTAAR CS R
0ADF - 0AEE 0.3K CON C x OI
QEMM386$ CS
0A1F - 0ADE 3K EMMXXXX0 CS
CON IO C x OI
AUX IO C
PRN IO C B L
CLOCK$ IO C K
A: - P: IO R L
COM1 IO C
LPT1 IO C B L
LPT2 IO C B L
LPT3 IO C B L
COM2 IO C
COM3 IO C
COM4 IO C

DOS / Files
Open Total
Files 8 32
FCBs 0 4

Open Files
Name Ext Program
AUX
CON
PRN
NUL
CON
NUL
NUL
MANIFEST PRN

DOS / Environment
Total Available
Environment Size 464 162

COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM
LIB=E:\LIB
LINK=/SE:500
NAME=WIN3
TEMP=P:\TEMP
TMP=P:\TEMP
COPYQM=VERIFY;ALL
FOXPROCFG=C:\FOXPRO\CONFIG.FP
PROMPT=$P$_
LAST=C:\LIGHT
LASTDRV=C:
ENV=WINDOWS
SPARE=RELEASE THIS SPACE IN BAT FILES TO GAIN MORE EN
...VIRONMENT
PATH=C:\UTIL;C:\BAT;C:\DOS;C:\NWLITE;K:\AMIPRO;C:\HDI
...PCDOS

QEMM-386 / Overview
QEMM version 6.00
QEMM status There is High RAM and Mapped ROM.
Expanded memory is being used.
Mode ON
Page Frame EC00


QEMM-386 / Memory
Unavailable Converted
Initial to QEMM by QEMM Leaving
Conventional 640K - 0K - 0K = 640K
Extended 31744K - 0K -31744K = 0K
Expanded 0K - 0K +31264K =31264K
High RAM 0K - 0K + 164K = 164K
------ ------ ------ ------
TOTAL 32384K - 0K - 316K =32068K

316K QEMM Overhead
Code & Data: 119K Maps: 32K
Tasks: 18K Mapped ROM: 68K
DMA Buffer: 64K Unassigned: 15K
3K Conventional Memory Overhead