3Com Corporation
		 Installing Server Support for AutoLink


 3Com's auto installation software, AutoLink, copies the NetWare DOS Requester
 client software from the EtherDisk diskette to the system you are 
 configuring for NetWare.  You may have newer versions of this software from 
 another source.  A 3Install account on the server allows the Autolink 
 program to download the NetWare DOS Requester software from the server instead
 of the EtherDisk diskette.  This feature can be used to install newer versions
 of the software or to customize your installation.

 The 3Install account can be customized to deliver installations specific to 
 your environment.  For example, you may have multiple protocols, unique 
 configurations, special application software, or non-NetWare clients in your 
 network environment.  Your system administrator may edit the LOGIN SCRIPT 
 for the 3Install account to copy specific software required during your 
 client installation process.
   
 The files required on the server to support Autolink are listed at the end 
 of this file.  Your system administrator needs to copy the latest versions 
 of the listed files and the NetWare client software to the server by 
 following the steps below: 

 1.  Create a user account with the name "3Install" and no password.  The 
     3Install home directory should be SYS:\3INSTALL.  

 2.  Edit the 3Install account's login script to be:

	  map *1:=sys:\3Install
	  drive *1:
	  map display off
	  exit "update"

     These commands map the 3Install account's home directory to a drive, 
     change the default drive to that drive, turn off unneeded messages, and
     start the update script.  The update script will automatically log out 
     at the end.

 3.  Set the directory and file rights of the 3Install home directory so that
     3Install has read and list permission only.  3Com recommends that the 
     account maintaining the files have full access, that 3Install have 
     read/list access, and that all others have no access.  This will prevent 
     users from modifying the files.

 4.  Use the batch file INSTALL.BAT on A:\QINSTALL\SERVER to copy the 
     required files from the diskette.  This batch file uses a utility that 
     only copies newer files, so existing files will be replaced only if 
     they are older.  Invoke INSTALL.BAT from A:\QINSTALL\SERVER with the 
     3Install home directory as the command line parameter.  For example, 
     type:

	  a:
	  cd qinstall\server
	  install f:\3install

 5.  Copy your preferred versions of the NetWare client software, LSL.COM, 
     IPXODI.COM, VLM.EXE, and *.VLM to the 3INSTALL\VLM directory on the server.
     The auto installation software will use these files if they are newer
     than the files on the diskette.


 Custom Client Installations
 ---------------------------

 Autolink can provide for custom installation of your own specific client 
 configuration.  To add your custom installation follow these steps:

 1.  Create your custom configuration in a subdirectory within the 3Install
     subdirectory.

 2.  Create a batch file that copies the contents of your custom directory 
     to C:\.
 
 3.  Edit the 3Install NetWare login script and execute the batch file from
     within the login script. 

 
 Server File List for the 3C5X9 Adapter
 --------------------------------------

 FILCPY.EXE         A utility program that copies a file only if the
                    target file is missing or older than the source file.

 FILEDT.EXE         A utility program that edits text files under control
                    of a script.

 FILFND.EXE         A utility program that locates files.

 UPDATE.EXE         A program started by the 3Install account's login script 
                    to locate and run each of the update procedures contained 
                    in the 3Install account.

 3C5X9\UPDATE.EXE   A program used to update the 3C5X9.COM driver on the
                    client system.

 3C5X9\3C5X9.COM    The latest version of the 3C5X9.COM driver.

 
 NOTE: Other types of 3Com adapters may require their own files and will be 
       documented on the diskette that accompanies that adapter.



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