Guide to Gateways for LAN Servers
Chapter 4, Administering and using LAN Manager Client

Configuring LAN Manager Client

Configuring LAN Manager Client

Once LMC has been installed, the Network Configuration Manager may be used to configure LMC over any XTI NetBIOS transport providers, for example SCO NetBIOS (TCP) or Microsoft's NetBEUI. Refer to ``NetBIOS configuration parameters'' in Configuring Network Connections.

To configure LMC:

  1. Install and configure the transport provider that you are going to use. Refer to the installation documentation for the transport provider for more details.

  2. Using the Network Configuration Manager, select the networking card to which you want to add LMC support.

  3. Select Add protocol from the Protocol menu, select SCO TCP/IP, and then click on Add.

  4. Select Add protocol, select SCO TPI NetBIOS for TCP/IP, and then click on Add.

  5. Select Add protocol, select LMC Runtime System, and then click on Add.

  6. When presented with the LMC configuration window, you are asked how many connections (Virtual Circuits) are provided by the transport provider. This determines the maximum number of concurrent sessions that the transport provider will support (the default value is 64). The value you should enter can be obtained from the documentation for the transport provider.

    The result of this is that the /etc/default/lmcconf file will have been updated to contain the configuration information referring to the new transport provider, system tunables, and network drivers.

  7. After you have reconfigured, and relinked the new kernel if necessary, LMC will automatically be started next time you reboot. If you do not want to reboot, you can start it manually. Enter lmc start (refer to lmc(LMC) for more details). You can use lmc status at any time to find out if LMC is running.