TCP/IP Question 2
Brian
Thanks for your help on the Client Access/ I.E. 4.0 questions.
My next question is this: Say I have a seperate physical windows NT
server for one of our departments and all those pcs need to use the AS/400
also. Now would I configure all the PCs in that department to use the
server and it's DHCP to be named? Then how would I get the AS/400 to
recognize all those PCS?
I am talking about using OS/400 v4r1 also.
Dick Daniels
Brian wrote:
> My next question is this: Say I have a seperate physical windows NT
> server for one of our departments and all those pcs need to use the AS/400
> also. Now would I configure all the PCs in that department to use the
> server and it's DHCP to be named? Then how would I get the AS/400 to
> recognize all those PCS?
It sounds as if you are asking how to set up a PC to use an NT server. ;-)
A lot would have to do with the physical arrangement & resources. What
would the client PC OS be... 3.1, NT, 95, 98, OS/2? What type physical
network is involved... Enet, TR? Would there really be separate DHCP
servers... is this department remote to others? Most of these are generic
PC networking issues in which the 400 has little involvement other than an
appropriate network connection.
As far as the 400 is concerned in a TCP/IP network, it is possible that you
will need to configure a route to these added PC's (I believe that's option
2 of CFGTCP), but ordinarily, the 400 would permit access by ANY PC that
knows its IP address or host name and presents valid userid's and
passwords. (assumes autocreate parms are *YES)
Dick Daniels
WYNTH,Inc
Guillermo
Brian:
Are you asking 1. how to assign a name to the PC's connected to the NT and
assigned IP thru DHCP or
2. how to configure the route in the AS/400?
If your question is 1) do a search on named devices, it has been thoroughly
covered before
If your question is 2) then I assume that you have the NT with 2 interfaces
or a router to connect the 2 networks. If you have the NT then your topology
should look like
PC's ----(eth)---(1)-NT(2)------(eth)------AS/400
Then you should configure the NT to do IP routing and configure in the
AS/400 the route to network of the PC's with the IP address of the NT
connected to the AS/400 as your next hop.
ie:
PC network 10.1.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 ( that means a PC would have assigned
IP ads as 10.1.0.2)
NT (1) ads 10.1.0.1 same mask
NT (2) ads 10.2.1.1 same mask |
AS/400 ads 10.2.1.2 same mask | network 10.2.0.0
the route in the AS/400 should look similar to
10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 10.2.1.1
If you have a router the entry in the AS/400 is similar and the next hop
points to the router ip ads connected to the AS/400.
One further point; all your DHCP assigned ip# should belong to the same
network.
hth
Guillermo
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Brian wrote in message <01bda4ed$8965da80$9b42a6d0@brianirwin>...
>Thanks for your help on the Client Access/ I.E. 4.0 questions.
>
>My next question is this: Say I have a seperate physical windows NT
>server for one of our departments and all those pcs need to use the AS/400
>also. Now would I configure all the PCs in that department to use the
>server and it's DHCP to be named? Then how would I get the AS/400 to
>recognize all those PCS?
>
boo...@ibm.net
If you use tcp/ip wouldn't you assign an ip address to your AS/400 and
then each machine would just go to that ip address when it wanted to? If
you used a name server you could name the AS400 and they could access it
by name instead of ip address.
<01bda4ed$8965da80$9b42a6d0@brianirwin>, on 07/01/98
at 12:42 PM, "Brian" <pil...@erie.net> said:
>Thanks for your help on the Client Access/ I.E. 4.0 questions.
>My next question is this: Say I have a seperate physical windows NT
>server for one of our departments and all those pcs need to use the
>AS/400 also. Now would I configure all the PCs in that department to use
>the server and it's DHCP to be named? Then how would I get the AS/400 to
>recognize all those PCS?
>I am talking about using OS/400 v4r1 also.
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