Novell 3.x Setup

Novell 3.x Setup

The following instructions are to be used as guidelines for setting up Novell to work properly with our software.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

FILESERVER
PROCESSOR:	Pentium
SPEED:	200Mhz or Faster
MEMORY:	32MB RAM or more
HARD DRIVE:	1GB SCSI or Larger

Note: Memory on fileserver may need to be increased depending on the size of the hard drive.

WORKSTATIONS
DOS or WINDOWS 3.1/3.11		WINDOWS 95/98
PROCESSOR:	486 (SX, DX or DX2) or Pentium	PROCESSOR:	Pentium
SPEED:	25MHz or Faster	SPEED:	200MHz or Faster
MEMORY:	8MB RAM	MEMORY:	32MB RAM
HARD DRIVE:	500MB or Larger	HARD DRIVE:	1GB or Larger
CD ROM:	N/A	CD ROM:	16X or Faster
MONITOR:	15" Color SVGA 1024x768 .28 Pitch	MONITOR:	15" Color SVGA 1024x768 .28 Dot Pitch

Recommended: Sound Card and Speakers

IMPORTANT: Each workstation must have a minimum of 520K base memory available (after IPX, NETX, ODI drivers, VLM's, TSR's and menus are loaded) for MAGIC to work properly.

Trustee Assignments

To simplify loading new releases and third party software, the trustee rights need to be setup as follows:

	Group Name	Trustee Directory Assignments
	IRSAIMS	        SYS:\          [R    F]
			SYS:APPS       [RWCEMF]

	Make sure all users are added to group IRSAIMS.

NOTE: You can either use the MAP ROOT command and map a drive letter to directory APPS or create a separate volume for application software. All of Insurance Rating Systems' software will be copied to the APPS directory or second volume. Our software must run from a root directory.

System Login Script

The following must be set in the System Login script for our software to work properly:


	map ins s1:=sys:public
             map ins s2:=sys
	map root g:=sys:apps

For DOS and Windows 3.X systems, set COMSPEC to the COMMAND.COM on the workstation local hard drive. If you create a second volume, substitute the correct map command for MAP ROOT shown above. Do not load MAGIC into the SYS: root drive (F:\).

Menus

If you are going to use Novell menus shipped with Novell V3.11, replace the V2.30 menu utilities with either V2.31 (the latest version) or V1.22 (shipped with V2.15 Novell).

	Memory used by menu utilities:
	1) V2.30 - 93K
	2) V2.31 - 34K  
	3) V1.22 - 16K

NOTE: IRS-AIMS only supports Novell Menus. The menus shipped with Novell V3.12 work fine, but they use a large amount of conventional memory. For Windows 3.x or Windows 9x systems, you will need to create shortcuts to access MAGIC.

Printers

Core printing services PSERVER.NLM and PSERVER.EXE, may be used. DO NOT use the PSERVER files dated 2-11-91 which were originally shipped with Novell V3.11. These versions known bugs in it and does not work properly. IRS-AIMS' software will print locally or on the system printer through the print spooler.

1. You must setup a DEFAULT form using PRINTDEF as shown below:

2. You must setup two print job configurations DEFAULT and AIMSCON using PRINTCON as shown below:

Default

Aimscon

3. You may need to create another print job named 2NDPRTR. This will allow the users to access a third system printer through AIMS.

2ndprtr

The print queues may be different depending on what you name them. Also remember to copy the print jobs using PRINTCON to each user AFTER saving them.

Workstation Drivers

IRS-AIMS recommends using the DOS Requester for your workstations along with MSDOS V6.22 for best results. DOSODI drivers may be used when necessary.

DOS Requester
If you are going to use the NetWare client, make sure you use V1.20, V1.20b, or V1.21 of the VLM.EXE (11-8-94 or newer) and all associated VLM modules.

DOSODI Drivers
Make sure you use NETX.EXE 5-24-94 or newer with the ODI drivers.

NOTE: You must also load the SHARE command on each workstation. According to Novell, it must be loaded AFTER the workstation drivers to work properly.

Windows 3.1 and 3.11

MAGIC Rating, AIMS and ACORD are all DOS programs. They will run under Windows 3.x. You will need to setup icons to access our software. You will need to use the workstation drivers mentioned above.

Windows 95 and 98

You will need to use the Novell Client 32 version 2.2 or later. You will also need to setup shortcuts for the Magic programs.

If you have any specific questions you can call 210-658-4691 and ask for technical support.

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FILESERVER

WORKSTATIONS

DOS or WINDOWS 3.1/3.11

WINDOWS 95/98