INF: SQL Server NetWare Named Pipes Information

• Microsoft SQL Server version 4.2 for OS/2

The following questions and answers provide information about NetWare named pipes:

1. Q. Is it true that NetWare names all named pipes servers alike,
      regardless of what named pipes process they are running?

   A. Novell supports extended LAN Manager API calls
      [NetServerEnum(), NetUserEnum(), and so forth] in versions 1.2
      and later of the OS/2 requester (OS/2 version 1.1 returns a null
      list). With this    software, you can indeed query the network
      for named pipes servers.

      Servers are named in CONFIG.SYS by passing a "computername"
      parameter when the named pipes daemon is loaded (this is
      documented in the comments in the CONFIG.PST file created by the
      requester install program).

      The DBNMPIPE TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) program is a
      component of the SQL Server 1.1, 1.11, and 4.2 client software
      for MS-DOS. We have made DB-Library (DB-Lib) protocol
      independent--this TSR program is an interface layer for named
      pipes. This interface IS NOT the protocol stack itself--it
      must be resident as part of the network software. The OS/2 and
      Windows implementations of this are DLLs (dynamic-link
      libraries).

2. Q. Can you have more than one OS/2 SQL Server on a single NetWare
      LAN?

   A. Yes, you can have as many SQL Servers on a NetWare LAN as you
      have OS/2 requester software installed. The "computername"
      parameters should be unique. Incidentally, the computername is
      what is prefixed as the root of the SQL Server pipe, as in the
      following example:

        \\MYCOMPUTER\PIPE\SQL\QUERY