Services for Macintosh and Preexisting Novell Appletalk Zones

 Last reviewed: November 10, 1995
Article ID: Q129130
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5

If you attempt to integrate NT into a preexisting Novell network, Novell requires that one of it s servers act as seed routers. The function of Novell seed routers is much different from the function of seed routers familiar to Windows NT users. The initial difference is the Zone Range. A legal Novell zone range would be 1000-1000. This would also be a legal range for Windows NT. This would preclude anyone from getting into this zone range since it has a length of zero. However, Novell allows an indeterminate number of members in that zone since additions are demand driven rather than hard coded. Zones can be added from any Novell server and are not based on a single seed router (as it would be on a hardware based or Windows NT-based router). A Windows NT machine will not be able to generate its own zone but will be able to insert itself into one of the existing Novell zones.

KBCategory: kbnetwork
KBSubcategory: ntmac
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50 sfm

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Last reviewed: November 10, 1995
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