Installation guide

288 Installation Guide for Clients
Creating .XIF Files
Protocol information (.XIF) files contain information needed by the
Setup program to install and coordinate protocol drivers. The
information relates only to data-transport protocols and not to particular
network adapter drivers.
To add a protocol driver, create an .XIF file in the following format:
Entries in an .XIF file have the following meanings:
model
A descriptive name for the protocol driver. The Setup program
displays this information in the “Network Drivers” dialog box. The
name can use any characters and be any length; the Setup program
displays only the first 20 characters.
path
The path for the directory in which the driver and its associated
PROTOCOL.INI file are located. The Setup program appends path
to the end of lanroot\DRIVERS, where lanroot is the LAN Manager
root directory (usually C:\LANMAN or C:\LANMAN.DOS). When
the Setup program installs the driver on a hard disk, this directory will
be created if it does not already exist.
devicedriver
The name of the device driver with appropriate options to be added as
a device line in the CONFIG.SYS file. You can have more than one
devicedriver line if the device driver requires other device drivers to
be loaded as well. If the device driver is in the path listed in path, use
only the filename. If the file is not in the path directory, use the
variable @lanroot and the relative path of the file. The Setup program
expands the string @lanroot to the path of the LAN Manager root
directory (usually C:\LANMAN or C:\LANMAN.DOS). For
example, @lanroot\SAMPLCRD\SAMPLCRD.OS2 would typically
expand to C:\LANMAN\SAMPLCRD\SAMPLCRD.OS2.
devicename
The name by which the driver is listed in the LANMAN.INI file
netx=devicename entry. The devicename entry is applicable only to
OS/2 protocols and may be ignored when MS-DOS protocols are
used.
type
The type of protocol driver, from the following list: