I'm not sure that your IPX address is valid. It must be *exactly* 20 hex digits
in length: an 8-digit ADSM server network address, and a 12-digit node address.
I'm not an expert in IPX/SPX communications, but I think the network address is
the IPX network address of the ADSM server, and the node address is the network
adapter address of the machine the ADSM server is running on (like the MAC on a
token-ring adapter). Each address should be padded with 0's (zeros) to fill it
out to the required length. For example, if your IPX network address is 97198
and your MAC address is 0004AC94C000, then the IPX address needs to be
specified as "000971980004AC94C000".
The NT server utilities can give you the correct IPXSPX address to use. Start
the utilities (the one whose icon looks like a pocket knife), then go to the
server options wizard. Open the options file, then click on the IPX/SPX tab.
This tab has a "Client Settings..." button on it that will show you the IPXSPX
address to use.
Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 07/09/98 07:25:27 AM
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Subject: Can't get IPX to work
I have installed ADSM on NT4 (v3.1.x) and I am using TCP/IP
for most of my clients. However, I have some Novel that want
to backup using IPX/SPX and I can't get it to work. I have one
Novel machine with TCP/IP loaded and it will back up, but when
I changed to IPX it gave me the error:
ANS1036S Invalid Option 'IPXSERVERADDRESS' found in options file.
I used the dsm.opt.smp file and uncommented the IPX stuff, so that
must be the right command. Here is my .OPT file:
* -------------------------------------------------------
*
COMMMETHOD IPXSPX
IPXSERVERADDRESS 435345ff
IPXSOCKET 8522
* Setting Nodename
* -------------------------------------------------------
Where 435345ff is my server address.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Ben
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