I'm trying to get a handle on how this TCP/IP stuff works in NetWare
Articles and Tips: qna
15 May 2000
Q.
Dear Ab-end: I am a new network administrator for a NetWare 5.1 network and I'm trying to get a handle on how this TCP/IP stuff works in NetWare. Is there a way to quickly find out the server's IP address without having to go to each server on the network?
--Stumped in Saskatchewan
A.
Dear Stumped: One of the quickest ways to see this information is to go to the server console and type CONFIG <Enter>. There you will see the IP address and your IPX address if installed, but you do have to go each server to see this information. If you have remote access set up, you can attach to the servers remotely and type the Config command on each one, but this is also time-consuming.
If you are logged in to your NetWare 5.1 server from a Windows 95/98/NT/2000 workstation, click on the Network Neighborhood icon. On each of the server icons that appear in the Network Neighborhood screen, you can right click and select the Properties entry. You will see a screen similar to that in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The server properties screen available from Windows workstations.
Here you see not only the IPX address (if there is one assigned) and the IP address, but you can also see the DNS servername resolution for that IP address. You can perform this search on each NetWare 5 server you are attached to, or that appears in the Network Neighborhood screen.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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