User`s guide

APP Server utility
APP Server installation and setup
C-8 Preliminary January 30, 1998 Pipeline User’s Guide
The –b option sets a socket option to allow broadcast transmissions and
inhibits the utility’s complaints about receiving invalid APP frame types
when it receives its own transmissions.
Note:
On some UNIX systems, you need root privileges to run the APP Server
utility in broadcast mode. (Some hosts disallow broadcast transmissions without
root privileges.) If you are running the utility in broadcast mode, make sure that
the Pipeline is configured with the broadcast address in the APP Host parameter
(APP Host=255.255.255.255).
Installing and using the APP Server utility for DOS
To initiate a connection to a remote secure network, the DOS user reboots the PC.
After the initial session negotiation, the remote ACE or SAFEWORD server
returns a password challenge that looks similar to this:
From: hostname
0-Challenge: challenge (or null challenge, depend-
ing on your setup)
Enter next password:
If more than one user uses the APP Server to log into a remote secure network
through the Pipeline, each user must include a user name in this format:
password.username
The syntax is a password followed by a period, followed by the user name.
The DOS version of the APP Server utility requires an ODI driver for its
networking needs. It must be installed in AUTOEXEC.BAT immediately after
loading the ODI driver. (You may need to edit STARTNET.BAT to accomplish
this; however, this version no longer requires any changes to NET.CFG.)
To install the APP Server utility for DOS:
1
Create an \ASCEND directory below the root directory.
2
Copy APPSRVDS.EXE into that directory.
3
If the APPSRVR.INI exists, copy that into the directory as well.
See “Creating banner text for the password prompt” on page C-3.
4
Open AUTOEXEC.BAT and add a command line invoking
APPSRVDS.EXE.