Leave the tree blank and enter a server for preferred server.

- Anders Gustafsson, Engineer, CNE, ASE
NSC Volunteer Sysop (http://support.novell.com/forums/)
Pedago, The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
Using VA 5.50 build 311 on Windows 2000 build 2195

Thanks for your reply but not exactly what I was looking for.

Anders Gustafsson wrote in message news:...
> Leave the tree blank and enter a server for preferred server.
>
> - Anders Gustafsson, Engineer, CNE, ASE
> NSC Volunteer Sysop (http://support.novell.com/forums/)
> Pedago, The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
> Using VA 5.50 build 311 on Windows 2000 build 2195

Michael,

What exactly are you looking for?

You can push out the login server in the client using group policy & the
Novell client adm files.

In article <11e1f6c0.0409100608.4a8006bd@posting.google.com>, Michael
writes
>Thanks for your reply but not exactly what I was looking for.
>
>Anders Gustafsson wrote in message
>news:...
>> Leave the tree blank and enter a server for preferred server.
>>
>> - Anders Gustafsson, Engineer, CNE, ASE
>> NSC Volunteer Sysop (http://support.novell.com/forums/)
>> Pedago, The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
>> Using VA 5.50 build 311 on Windows 2000 build 2195

Keith Bailey
Computer Manager
Kingsbury High School
LONDON UK

Suppose I don't specify a login server. How does NDS locate which
locate server to use? I only want regardless of the # of partitions
to accept logins from (2) servers.

Michael,

There is a setting in the client called "get nearest server". If no
server is specified in the client & "get nearest server" is set then the
first one to respond handles the login.

In article <11e1f6c0.0409141302.26a1fda3@posting.google.com>, Michael
writes
>Suppose I don't specify a login server. How does NDS locate which
>locate server to use? I only want regardless of the # of partitions
>to accept logins from (2) servers.

Keith Bailey
Computer Manager
Kingsbury High School
LONDON UK

On 14 Sep 2004 14:02:16 -0700, Michael wrote:
> Suppose I don't specify a login server. How does NDS locate which
> locate server to use?

NDS doesn't. The Client does. How it does, and what it does depends a lot
on how you have it configured, and which protocols you're using.

Assuming you have it configured for IP, and not for IPX, it will make
either a broadcast or multicast request for an SLP DA. If one is reachable
it will be queried for _a_ server that is in the configured tree. If you
have a DA configured in the client, this will be done via unicast instead
of broadcast or multicast.

Once it has the address of an initial server to attach to, it will attach to
and request a referral list from that server, looking for one that can
satisfy it's requests to log in. This may involve walking through
intermediat servers and making more referral requests. Once it has found
one that can be used, it will attach to it and use it to process the
login request.

> I only want regardless of the # of partitions
> to accept logins from (2) servers.

Yes, you said that. I still think you're trying too hard to configure
this and potentially over-tuning a setup that is designed to work without
much configuration or tuning.


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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:26:41 +0100, Keith Bailey wrote:
> Michael,
>
> There is a setting in the client called "get nearest server".

Get Nearest Server is a broadcast packet, and only applies to IPX.

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