NetWare Client for DOS and MS Windows User Guide

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Setting Up Source Routing Support for a Token-Ring Network

Modifying the DOS System and NetWare Client Conﬁguration Files

Modifying the DOS System and NetWare Client

Configuration Files

Modifying the DOS system and NetWare Client conﬁguration ﬁles requires

you to edit the CONFIG.SYS, STARTNET.BAT, and NET.CFG ﬁles with an

ASCII text editor.

Modifying the CONFIG.SYS File

Modify the CONFIG.SYS ﬁle with an ASCII text editor to set the

LASTDRIVE variable to Z for the NetWare DOS Requester™ software.

Procedure

1 Open the CONFIG.SYS file with an ASCII text editor.

For example, to use the Novell® DOS™ 7 System Editor at the command line to

edit the CONFIG.SYS ﬁle in the root directory, you would type

EDIT C:\CONFIG.SYS <Enter>

2 Set the LASTDRIVE variable to Z by adding the following line to the file:

LASTDRIVE = Z

3 Save your changes and exit the ASCII text editor.

Modifying the STARTNET.BAT File

Modify the STARTNET.BAT ﬁle with an ASCII text editor to load the Link

Support Layer™ (the LSL.COM ﬁle), the ODI™ LAN driver, the source

routing driver (the ROUTE.COM ﬁle), and the NetWare DOS Requester

software.

Procedure

1 Add the following lines, in the given order, to the STARTNET.BAT file to load

the ROUTE.COM and NetWare Client files:

cd path

lsl