How To Set Up Lantastic 6.0 for Network INT14 Logins
             (or at least how it worked for me)

Only LANTASTIC VERSION 6.0 will support IPX LAN LOGINS!  5.x will NOT!  If
you are using the older AE2x NIC's from Artisoft you MUST rejumper them to
put them into NE2000 compatible mode.  Also, ALL Servers & Workstations on
your network must be changed to IPX/NDIS or they won't talk to each other.

Make sure your network is running properly in "normal" Lantastic 6.0 peer to
peer mode.  Once that is setup you will need to extract the rest of the files
manually from the Lantastic install disks (or if you have an install resource
set up on a hard drive you can get it from there) to get NDIS/IPX support.

If you are running "NE2000" compatible cards you will need to find a copy of
NE2000.EXE. This is widely available and is probably posted here on the BBS.

Once you are running a complete lantastic peer-peer network you need the
following additional files to support TBBS 2.3 net logins (all of which,
except NE2000, are (well hidden) right on the Lant 6.0 disks).

  
  NE2000.EXE (for NE2000 compatible cards)
         or
  NRODI.EXE (for Noderunner cards)
  (If you are using other cards - Intel, SMC etc, they have their own drivers 
  to replace NE2000.EXE and ODINSUP.COM)
  PROTMAN.DOS
  PROTMAN.EXE 
  LSL.COM      
  IPXODI.COM            
  ODINSUP.COM           
  AI-NDIS.EXE           
  NET.CFG  (a text file which goes in root directory)
  PROTOCOL.INI (in the lantastic directory)

To get these files from your Lantastic distribution disks install your DISK
number 1, log into it's drive and type INSTALL/EXTRACT/DOS.  Select LIST OF
ADAPTER DRIVERS and LANTASTIC NOVELL WORKSTATION CLIENT files and hit enter.
From the LIST OF ADAPTER DRIVERS select AEX NDIS SUPPORT FOR ARTISOFT
ADAPTERS. All the above files (except NE2000.EXE) will be extracted to the
directory you chose.

Normal Lantastic startup batch file (before IPX) looks like this:

 AEX (or NEX000 for NE2000 cards or NR.EXE for NODERUNNER cards)
 AILANBIO
 REDIR
 SERVER

You need to make the following modifications for IPX support.

In config.sys add the following line:

   DEVICE=C:\LANTASTI\PROTMAN.DOS

Your autoexec.bat (or startnet.bat) should be changed to look like this:

 LSL
 NE2000 (replaces NEX000 or AEX.COM)
  -  or  -
 NRODI.COM (replaces NR.EXE)
 IPXODI A (the "A" switch reduces memory useage)
 ODINSUP
 AI-NDIS BIND_TO=NE2000 RECEIVE_BUFFERS=4 NO_RECEIVE_HOLDOFF
 AILANBIO
 REDIR <MACHINE NAME>
 SERVER (if you are installing a server)

There will also be a file called NET.CFG extracted that needs to be slightly
modified. As it comes it looks like:

  PROTOCOL ODINSUP
  BUFFERED

  PROTOCOL IPXODI
  BIND #1

  LINK DRIVER NRODI (if you are using NODERUNNER cards)
     -OR-
  LINK DRIVER NE2000 (for NE2000 compatible cards)
  FRAME ETHERNET_802.2
  FRAME ETHERNET_II
  FRAME ETHERNET_SNAP
  FRAME ETHERNET_802.3
; add the following 2 lines
  PORT 300  <------ this is the I/O port your NE2000 is using
  INT 10    <------ this is the IRQ your card is using

Make sure all the above support files are in your \LANATASTI directory. If
you are using other NIC's (INTEL, SMC etc) the installation is the same
except you must use their ODI support files to replace ODINSUP & NE2000. 

All these files require a MUCH LARGER memory useage then your "normal"
Lantastic setup so it is almost a MUST to load much of this high.  I get
consistent 43000 cps xfer rates across my small (3 station) network using
Qmodem Pro (DOS).  

ED.FEINS@CFONJ.COM