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NetWare and rconsole: Dell™ Flexible Array Storage Tool User's Guide

FAST and CLI are not optimized for the NetWare^TM operating system as they are for Windows NT and Windows 2000. As a result, several operations in FAST and CLI (such as creating, clearing, deleting, reconfiguring, and extending containers) require that you do some work on the NetWare console to make the NetWare operating system aware of the devices that make up a container.

To make these tasks easier to accomplish, we recommend that you avail yourself of NetWare's rconsole utility, which permits the NetWare console to be displayed remotely on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 client. Using rconsole, you do not have to move physically to the NetWare server that has the controller installed in it when you administer the controller from a Windows NT or Windows 2000 client running FAST.

To set up and run the rconsole utility from a Windows NT or Windows 2000 client, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that you have a Network Interface Card installed and configured, and that you have established the client service for NetWare. For information on how to set up the client service for NetWare, see the appropriate Microsoft documentation.
2. Map the network drive to the sys:public area on the NetWare^TM server, which is where the rconsole utility is installed.
3. Execute the \sys:public\rconsole.exe utility. When the utility starts up, the following occurs:
   1. You are prompted to select a connection type. Select SPX.
   2. A scrolling list of nodes on the SPX network appears. Select the NetWare server that contains the controller you are administering.
   3. You are prompted for the NetWare server's login and password. Enter the NetWare server's login and password. If the login and password are authenticated, the NetWare server's console is displayed remotely on the Windows NT or Windows 2000 client.

For information on how to set up and configure the rconsole utility on the NetWare server, see the appropriate NetWare documentation.