Setting Up OS/2 LAN Manager to Use Replicator in 2.00

ID Number: Q57836

2.00

OS/2

Summary:

The replication service is a new feature included in OS/2 LAN Manager

Version 2.00. The documentation for the replication service is fairly

complete, and does document the two points discussed below; however,

these two points can be somewhat confusing.

In the example listed below, assume the export server is named

EXPORT1, and the import server is named IMPORT1. When starting the

replicator, you should do the following:

1. Make sure the IMPORT1 account on EXPORT1 (the export server) has

"RA" authority on the entire C:\LANMAN\REPL\EXPORT tree.

The easiest way to do this is with the NET ADMIN command. First,

authorize IMPORT1 (the import server) to just

C:\LANMAN\REPL\EXPORT, then after clicking Permit you will be

returned to a menu where you just click Permit tree.

2. On IMPORT1, the import server, do the following

md c:\lanman\repl\import\subdir1

md c:\lanman\repl\import\subdir2

so that the subdirectories IMPORT1 is supposed to import (in this

example, subdir1, and subdir2) will already exist. The replicator

will not create these subdirectories for you, so you must do this

yourself. The reason the replicator does not create these

subdirectories for you is because this is one way to control

which, of the potentially many subdirectories an export server

might export, are actually imported to by a given import server.