Interoperability with NetWare

Troubleshooting Other Common Problems

In addition to potential NetWare and Windows 2000 connectivity problems related to setup and login scripts, you might experience the following problems.

Gateway Service or Client Service creates multiple licensed connections to NDS servers

If you have a NetWare NDS tree that includes more than one NetWare server, you could be using multiple licensed connections by connecting to one server for authentication and login, then mapping connections through a login script to another server. If you do this, you could be using twice the number of Novell-licensed connections as necessary.

For information about how to correct this problem, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources. Search the knowledge base using the keywords "connect to multiple servers" and "NDS."

Windows 2000–based computers cannot connect to other Windows clients

By default, Windows 95–based and Windows 98–based computers use client and server-side direct hosting for the IPX/SPX protocol. Direct hosting is a feature that allows computers to communicate over IPX, bypassing the NetBIOS layer.

Windows 2000 supports server-side direct hosting but does not support client-side direct hosting. Therefore, although a Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, or Windows 98–based client running only the IPX/SPX protocol can connect to a Windows 2000–based server, a Windows 2000–based client cannot connect to a Windows 2000–based server running only the IPX/SPX protocol. To resolve this problem you need to enable NetBIOS on the Windows 2000–based client and the Windows 2000–based server.

For information and instructions about how to enable NetBIOS on the Windows client version running on your computer, see the documentation provided with your Windows operating system.