Using Windows NT To Access Pathworks For VMS (DOS) 4.x Server

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51

SUMMARY

Pathworks for VMS (DOS) is LAN Manager V1 compliant. Windows NT can be both LAN Manager V2.2 or V3 compliant. This article explains how you can connect to a Pathworks for VMS (DOS) 4.x server from Windows NT.

MORE INFORMATION

Both the Windows NT computer and the Pathworks for VMS server must be running the same protocol (e.g. TCP/IP).

Share names under Windows NT are limited to 12 characters in length and the file service name must be 12 characters in length or less, if you are going to connect to a Pathworks file service.

To connect to any file or print service on the Pathworks for VMS Server via the public account (PCFS$ACCOUNT), go to the Command Prompt on the Windows NT computer and issue the following connect command:

net use e: \\server_name\service

Windows NT is not capable of passing the username to the Pathworks for VMS file server if you specify it as a qualifier on the command line. For example, the following command will not work:

net use e: \\server_name\service /user:user_name *

The reason for this is that the Pathworks for DOS client uses a different syntax in making a connection to a Pathworks for VMS server and expects to see the username as part of the service name or share name. If you are connecting from Pathworks for DOS V4.1 client to a Pathworks for VMS server, the command syntax would have been specified in the following manner:

net use e: \\server_name\service_name%user_name *

Pathworks for VMS (DOS) expects to see the "%USER_NAME" as part of the share or service name. If you specify your connect command with Windows NT using this same syntax, it will work provided that the length of the share name plus the length of the username is less than or equal to 11. The percent sign (% counts as one additional character. For example, the following connect command from a Windows NT client to a Pathworks for VMS (DOS) 4.x server will connect you to the file service pcsav41 as user JOHN (you will be prompted for the user's password):

net use e: \\server_name\pcsav41%john *

Pathworks for VMS (DOS) is manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

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Version : 3.50 3.51
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